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Knowledge, Attitude And Practice On Smoking Among Students In Nigerian University
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Smoking
has become a complex global public health problem and a major
health-risk factor linked with the development of cancer, heart disease,
chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes (World Bank, 1999). It is
responsible for the largest preventable cause of death in the world.
Each day more than 13,000 people die prematurely because of tobacco use
(CDC, 2000). This figure is expected to almost double by the year 2020.
Countries at all levels of development are victims of the tobacco
epidemic (WHO, 2003a).
According to the World Bank Reports in 2003
there were about 1.3 billion people smoking cigarettes or other
products, and out of them, almost one billion were men and 250 million
were women. About 80 percent of these people lived in low and
middle-income countries (Guindon & Boisclair, 2003). Cigarette
smoking has become not only a national social problem, but a global one
also. Smoking is expected to kill 4 million people in the next 12
months, and by 2030, it will kill 10 million people a year, which is
more than any other single cause of death. Seven million of these deaths
will occur in low-income and middle-income countries (World Bank, 1999;
CDC, 2000). Numerous studies reveal that smoking prevalence has
remained stable in the United States of America (USA) at 23% since 1993
(Etter, 2004; Fiore, 2003; Giovino, 1994).
The World Health
Organization (WHO) has estimated that five million deaths occur annually
due to tobacco use and this number of deaths is expected to reach more
than eight million by the year 2030 (Gajalakshmi et al., 2004; WHO,
2009). About 80% of this number will be in developing countries (WHO,
2009). However, the exact magnitude of the problem of smoking in
developing countries is not well defined. There is little information to
describe the characteristics of smoking patterns in these countries
(Gajalakshmi et al., 2004). Smoking has a great economic burden by
causing a decrease of economic productivity and high health care
expenditures in addition to the cost of tobacco (Ruff et al., 2000).
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The purpose of this cross sectional study was to explore university students' knowledge, attitude and practice towards smoking and to compare these factors between smokers and non-smokers. A sample of 300 students was randomly selected to complete a self-administered questionnaire about knowledge, attitude and practice of smoking in the University, Ojo. The Majority of the smoking students (69%) knew the adverse effects of smoking. Rates of non-smoking students who knew the adverse effects of sm ... Continue reading---
