title: Cigarette Smoking and its Relationship with Perceived Familial Support and Religiosity of University Students in Tabriz.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The goal of the present study was to assess the prevalence of cigarette smoking and its relationship to other risk taking behaviors, perceived familial support and religiosity among college students in Tabriz, Iran.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this study, 1837 randomly selected students participated and completed a self-administered questionnaire inquiring demographic characteristics, risk taking behaviors, Aneshensel and Sucoff's 13-items one-dimensional perceived Parental support scale and 28 - items Kendler's general religiosity scale.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In general, 15.8 % of the students were cigarette smokers. The results indicated that being male (OR = 3.21), living alone or with friends (OR = 2.00), having a part-time job (OR = 1.98), alcohol consumption during the past 30 days (OR = 3.67), hookah use (OR = 5.23), substance abuse (OR = 1.69), familial support (OR = 0.97) and religiosity (OR = 0.98) have statistically significant relationships with cigarette smoking.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our study represents the co-occurrence of risky behaviors. Cultural context in the traditional communities seems to show the crucial role of familial support and religiosity traits with the female gender as predictive factors to not smoke cigarette and perform other risky behaviors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Education & Promotion, School of Health & Nutrition, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Hamid
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Allahverdipour
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Abbas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abbasi-Ghahramanloo
authors.affiliation: Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center,Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Asghar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mohammadpoorasl
authors.affiliation: Evaluator, Health Education and Nutrition Consultant. 2874 E. Niles Ave, Fresno, CA 93720,USA.
authors.forename: Pouran
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nowzari
keywords: Cigarette Smoking; Perceived Familial Support; Religiosity; Risk Taking behaviors; Students