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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina

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Abstract

CASTANO-CASTRILLON, José Jaime et al. ESTUDIO DESCRIPTIVO SOBRE TABAQUISMO EN LA COMUNIDAD ESTUDIANTIL DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE MANIZALES. 2007Tabacco use in students of "Universidad de Manizales 2007". A descriptive study. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2008, vol.56, n.4, pp.302-317. ISSN 0120-0011.

Background. Smoking may be viewed as a pandemic. Materials and methods. Descriptive study with a sample of 237 students enrolled from I to X semester of all schools in Universidad de Manizales during the first academic period of the year 2007. All of them were randomly assigned to answer a questionnaire which included Glover Nilsson, Fargerström and Richmond tests. Results. According to WHO criteria, 41 percent of the students are smokers (37.6% regular and 3.4% sporadic) with equal proportions between sexes, 58.2 percent were non-smokers, 0.8 percent ex-smokers and 38.9 percent smoke 1-3 cigarettes a day. 86.6 percent of smokers started his habit before getting into the University; most of them (77.9%) between 12 and 17 years of age. In most of the schools non-smokers are majority, with exception of social Communications, education and medicine. 46 percent believes that hould exist a permanent non smoking area in the University cafeterias. The majority of the smokers has low or moderate motivation to quit smoking. Conclusions. Is urgent to establish preventive actions to in the acquisition of smoki habit and to promote its cessation in every one students.

Keywords : Smoking; smoking cessation; tobacco; students; public health; preventive medicine; social medicine.

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