TY  - JOUR
TI  - Understanding university students’ smoking
behaviors towards tobacco-free campus policy
AB  - Understanding university students’ smoking behaviors towards tobacco-free
campus policy
Introduction: Tobacco-free college campuses refer to colleges and universities
that have implemented policies prohibiting the use of tobacco products at all
indoor and outdoor campus locations. We aimed to evaluate university students' smoking behaviors and their attitudes towards “Tobacco-Free Campus
Policy”.
Materials and Methods: A total of 10,383 university students were included
in this cross-sectional study. The questionnaire was sent via web-based student information system. Demographical variables, the frequency of tobacco
use, the addiction levels of the smoker students, and their perspective on the
Tobacco-Free Campus Policy were evaluated.
Results: The study population consisted of 5461 (52.6%) males and their
mean age was 22.1 ± 3.9 years. Among the students, 3992 (38.4%) were
current smokers and the age of first smoking was 16.5 ± 2.78 years. According
to FTND scores, 15.1% of participants have high dependence, and 7.5% of
them have very high dependence. There was a significant difference among
participants who finds unacceptable “Tobacco-Free Campus Policy” in terms
of gender (70.7% males vs. 29.3% females, p< 0.001) and smoking habit
(7% never smoker, 4.1% ex-smoker, 88.9% current smoker, p< 0.001).
Conclusion: The Tobacco-Free Campus Policy is important to fight against the
tobacco industry in order to protect the right to health of all tobacco users and
those who do not use it and should be considered as a goal to be achieved in
order to live in a healthy environment.
AU  - Gorek Dilektasli, Asli
AU  - Aydin Guclu, Ozge
AU  - Karadağ, Mehmet
AU  - Uzaslan, Esra
AU  - Coskun, Funda
DO  - 10.5578/tt.20219906
PY  - 2021
JO  - Tüberküloz ve Toraks
VL  - 69
IS  - 1
SN  - 0494-1373
SP  - 49
EP  - 58
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/509028
ER  -