Cigarette use among Canadian undergraduates.
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.
Adlaf
Edward M
EM
Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, ON. edward_adlaf@camh.net
Gliksman
Louis
L
Demers
Andrée
A
Newton-Taylor
Brenda
B
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