title: Cigarette smoking among students at the university of tuzla.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cigarette smoking among students is greatly widespread. Smoking prevalence ranges from 28% to 67% for students, respectively, from 19% to 34% for female students.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this survey was to investigate the smoking habits of students, who are studying at three faculties at the University of Tuzla in academic Year 2012/2013 and to investigate whether there is a difference in smoking habits of students from different faculties and observed by gender.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study included a total of 254 students, 170 females (66.93%) and 84 male patients (33.07%). A representative sample consisted of students of three faculties of the University of Tuzla.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The conducted analyzes have shown that in this sample 22.8% of current smokers, and 7.8% are former smokers who now no longer smoke. Due to the adopted smoking habits, which some students began to adopt in the age of 13, in 47.5% part of students occasionally was observed some symptoms (cough, etc.) which are attributed to smoking. The analysis showed no statistically significant gender difference in smoking habits. Although the trend of smoking in the population students progression, one and the same quantity was well as male colleagues. We did not find any statistically significant difference in onset of adopting smoking habits.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The analyzes have shown that in this sample 22.8% of current smokers, and 7.8% were former smokers who now no longer smoke. The analysis showed no statistically significant gender difference in smoking habits of all students. There were no statistically significant differences in the daily consumption of cigarettes between faculty.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Merima
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ibisevic
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Azra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Avdic
authors.affiliation: Heart Center BH Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Enes
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Osmanovic
authors.affiliation: Heart Center BH Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Nedzad
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kadric
authors.affiliation: Heart Center BH Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Sevleta
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Avdic
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013339:Students, Pharmacy / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: smoking; smoking habit; students; university