title: [Smoking, alcohol consumption and pregnancy in a population of south-western Romania].
abstract: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the amplitude of tobacco and alcohol consumption among two populations living in urban, respectively rural areas in the South-Western part of the country. The presence of the two risky behaviours during the pregnancy was also analysed.
  
  
  METHODS
  A number of 1,200 people, men and women, aged 18-75 years, with different educational levels, living in urban and rural communities were asked to answer a questionnaire with 111 items regarding their knowledge and attitudes about the sexual-reproductive health; 11 items referred to tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking.
  
  
  RESULTS
  About half of the subjects have never smoked. The mean age of starting smoking was 16.97 years. A number of 295 subjects (24.6%) were daily active smokers, men more frequently than women (p < 0.001). A percentage of 77.3% of the subjects used to drink alcohol, 16.4% of them daily. The daily alcohol consumption was more frequent among men, low educated people and rural inhabitants comparing to women, respectively high educated or urban inhabitants (p < 0.001); 11.2% of the respondents got frequently drunk. During the last pregnancy in the couple, women and high educated people stopped smoking and drinking more frequently then men, respectively low educated people.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The above findings indicate the need to start in school effective health promotion campaigns to reduce tobacco and alcohol consumption and the need for support of population-based educational interventions aimed at smoking cessation in both parents.
authors.affiliation: Facultatea de Medicină, Disciplina de Igienă, Sănătatea mediului, Universitatea de Medicină si Farmacie Craiova.
authors.forename: Ileana
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Prejbeanu
authors.forename: Cornelia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rada
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Indrei
authors.forename: Monica L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Cara
authors.forename: Marcelina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mihai
authors.forename: Manuela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dragomir
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pîrlog
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D000465:Algorithms; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*