title: [Smoking among students--the comparison of author's own investigations with literature].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Addiction is an acquired strong need to perform some action or use some substance. Cigarettes are the only product with proven carcinogens, legally sold all over the world. Smoking is the most common cause of death in the EU and despite a significant progress, the number of smokers in the EU is still high. The problem of addiction increases and has an impact on the educational process and social changes give new trends and phenomena with a strong impact on the behavior of young people.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the research was the analysis of the anti-health behavior on the basis of nicotine addiction among students and the evaluation of circumstances and motives of smoking it.
  
  
  METHODS
  The research has been carried out in the years 2011-12 among students of several Poznan universities at the age of 19-35 by means of a questionnaire survey. The average age of respondents was 21.25 +/- 4.125 years. In the research participated 65.2% of men and 44.8% of women.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Students beginning studies already possess specific anti-health behaviour. Most of them started to drink and smoke in the school-age. In case of the tobacco addiction better results were observed due to the greater awareness of the harmfulness which provoked "fashion for non-smoking" among young people. Most of them declare knowledge about the harmfulness of the addictions and consider their state of health as good despite the existing problem of addiction. The low level of addiction and a high level of motivation to stop smoking can be considered positive aspects of fighting the addiction.
authors: Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego Katedra Nauk o Zdrowiu Zakład Organizacji i Zarzadzania. rasinska@ump.edu.pl
authors: Renata
authors: R
authors: Rasińska
authors: Iwona
authors: I
authors: Nowakowska
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult