Determining Smoking Prevalence among Uludag University Faculty of Medicine
İlknur,Vatan, Hande,Ocakoğlu, Emel,İrgil.
Abstract
AIM: The purpose of this study to determie the smoking prevalance of students in Uludag University Medical Faculty in the term of 2006-2007.
METHODS: In this desciptive study questionnaires applied to 765 students (63.3 %) who accepted to participate to the study of all 1230 students of the Uludag University Medical Faculty in the term of 2006-2007.
RESULTS: The prevalance of smoking was found 17.3%. The mean smoking age was 17.6±2.8.The main reason for beginning to smoke was stress (46.3%) and curiosity (15.9%).The relationship between smoking prevalance and male sex, higher classes and the place which is smoking free was statistically significant (p
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