title: Cigarette use among Canadian undergraduates.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the prevalence of daily cigarette use among Canadian undergraduates. Estimates are also compared to earlier Ontario surveys.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data are drawn from the Canadian Campus Survey, a national mail survey, conducted in the fall of 1998, with a random sample of 7,800 students from 16 universities.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall, 17.1% reported daily cigarette smoking and 10.4% reported occasional smoking. Rates of daily smoking differed significantly by region (with rates above average among those attending university in the Atlantic and below average among those attending university in British Columbia and the Prairies), residence (those residing off campus without family reported the highest prevalence rate), and year of study (those in the final year typically reported lower rate of use).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  University campuses represent an environment with potential gains to be made by tobacco control policies.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, ON. edward_adlaf@camh.net
authors.forename: Edward M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Adlaf
authors.forename: Louis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gliksman
authors.forename: Andrée
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Demers
authors.forename: Brenda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Newton-Taylor
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005843:Geography; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014495:Universities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014026:Nicotiana