Smoking habits and awareness of smoking risks depending on academic background in university students
Sandra Saleiro1, Carla Damas, Isabel Gomes
1Interna complementar de Pneumologia, Porto, Portugal. sandrasaleiro@portugalmail.pt
Objective:
To evaluate smoking habits among a group of medical students and engineering students in order to assess whether, depending on their specific academic background, differences in smoking habits and attitudes towards smoking were present.
Methods:
Medical and engineering students from the Oporto University were surveyed using a questionnaire, in which they were asked to mention their smoking habits, their perception about cigarette dependence and to point out, from a list of 12 tobacco-related diseases, which were associated with tobacco use.
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