title: [Students of the Faculty of Medicine and of the Division of Public Health of Medical University of Bialystok towards nicotine addiction against the background of the National Health Program in Poland].
abstract: In the years 1998-2005 in Poland a National Health Program was being implemented. One of its chief guidelines was to reduce the popularity of tobacco smoking, recognised as a proven, single factor influencing the etiology and the course of many diseases. The objective of the work was to establish whether the program's guidelines were reflected in individual attitudes of senior students of the Faculty of Medicine and of the Division of Public Health of Medical University of Bialystok. The research was conducted with the use of an anonymous questionnaire, filled in by the students before the classes dedicated to the issues of nicotine addiction within the framework of the family medicine thematic block. The analysis of the results did not show a decrease in the number of student smokers in comparison to the previous years; however, it was observed that more than a half of the current smokers had tried and was going to try to give up smoking, and the non-smokers strongly objected to passive smoking.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Medycyny Rodzinnej i Pielegniarstwa Srodowiskowego, Akademii Medycznej w Białymstoku. d.bielska1@wp.pl
authors.forename: Dorota
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bielska
authors.forename: Alicja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Litwiejko
authors.forename: Emil
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Trofimiuk
authors.forename: Donata
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kurpas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009313:National Health Programs; D009538:Nicotine / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011044:Poland; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013337:Students, Medical; D040443:Students, Public Health; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder
chemical_list: D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution; D009538:Nicotine