The objective of the present study was to describe how college students perceive the risks of
cigarette smoking and addiction to nicotine. Data came from a self-administered survey of …

Background: Many studies have indicated that the young adults (18-24 years) were not fully
aware of healthconsequences of cigarette smoking. The objective of the study is to …

The authors used the Health Risk Behavior Survey for University Students to assess the
prevalence of tobacco use among undergraduates in the Florida state university system …

Approximately 10,000 undergraduates from 12 Texas colleges and universities and 350
health care students completed a Web-based survey assessing the prevalence and …

ContextAdults aged 18 to 24 years, many of whom are in college, represent the youngest
legal targets for tobacco industry marketing. Cigarette smoking has been described among …

The ages at which 18-to 24-year-old college students started smoking and its relationship to
subsequent smoking were explored, using data from the 1995 National College Health Risk …

This study examined perceived risk of harm from smoking or ST use in a US nationally
representative sample of high school seniors and examined its association with current …

The authors examined college student opinions of no-smoking policies, secondhand smoke,
and smoking in public places. A convenience sample of 1,188 (66.4% female; 26.9% White …

A cross‐sectional survey research design measured factors related to cigarette use among
2,212 senior high school students. Results showed 14.3% of the sample smoked cigarettes …

After many years of intense publicity about the hazards of smoking cigarettes, it is generally
believed that every teenager and adult in the US knows that smoking is hazardous to one's …