Cigarette Smoking Status among Students of Primary School in Erzurum

ÜNSAL A., Güleç Keskin S.

TURKISH THORACIC JOURNAL, cilt.10, sa.2, ss.75-81, 2009 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 10 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2009
  • Dergi Adı: TURKISH THORACIC JOURNAL
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.75-81
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Primary school students, smoking, low socio-economic status, ATTITUDES, PREVALENCE, PREDICTORS, CHILDREN, HABITS
  • Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Introduction: Tobacco use is one of the most important preventable health problems all over the world. The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared that smoking is the biggest health problem since over five million people die of it every year and it causes much harm. Most people begin to smoke in their early years and continue as an addiction. The aim of this descriptive cross-sectional study was to determine the smoking status of students at a primary school in the low socio-economic status region in Erzurum.