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Students Smoking Behavior
The rates of campus students smoking have fluctuated over a period of the last twenty years. Most of the lifelong smokers' start their smoking habit before they reach the age of 24 years. This therefore means those campus years are a very crucial time when it comes to any study of cigarette smoking. Cigar rete smoking in campus has now become a very serious issue in public health issue. This has led to an increase in campus wide bans in smoking alongside other preventive programs in place to reduce students smoking rates. There are several economic, social and environmental factors that have been associated with the increase of smoking around campus students. Some of these factors are low socioeconomic status, students who have parents, close friends and relatives who smoke the acceptance as well as positive views of peers who smoke the exposure and high availability of tobacco products and so on.
There are several assumptions that can be made when t comes to this smoking behavior among campus students.one of the assumption is that about a third of students in campus smoke. Another assumption is campus students' view smoking as a social habit. Another assumption is women use smoking as a tool for loosing weight. There are also some perceived gender disparities when it comes to smoking.
Despite the existence of campaigns that...
From a research that was conducted by Harvard School of public health who carried a survey on 1400 students from 119 colleges showed that a third of the students accepted that they had used tobacco products. This includes cigarettes and chewing tobacco. Between 1993 and 1997 the number of U.S. students who smoke increased from 22%-28%.researchers have laid the blame on cigarette industry marketing push for the increase in the number of students who smoke in campus (Schorr,2009).
Studies show that there exist some social differences when it comes to the behavior of smoking of female and male campus students. The campus students themselves have some perceptions when it comes to smoking by their opposite sex. From the perspective of both female and male students there were some negative feelings towards the behavior of women smoking which they both consider as being "unlady like." However, there is a general positive perspective when it comes to smoking among men as they are taken to be cool and tough. Though there exist negative perceptions when it comes to smoking by female students the behavior of smoking in parties is considered to be a female behavior and not a male behavior.
Research shows that women use smoking as a tool for loosing and…
References
Indiana University (2011), September 14). Campus smoking ban reduced students' smoking, changed attitudes. ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 11,2013 from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110914122700.htm
Schorr, M.(2009).A Third of college students smoke. Retrieved September 11,2013 from http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=118065&page=1
Coster, D.(2013). Campus smokings ban a drag for some students. Retrieved September 11,2013 from http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/9122346/Campus-smoking-ban-a-drag-for-some-students
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