In order to find the associated factors with cigarette smoking in the freshmen of college, a survey was made toward 4,437 male students who had just entered a national university and a private university at Kwangju City, Korea, during the period from January 13th. 1993 to January 29th, 1993. Questionnaire on smoking status among adolescents developed by WHO was used to collect data from students who came to school health centers for health check-up.
The analyzed results are as follows
1. Among the 4,437 students, 1,872(42.2%) students reported that they had already experienced smoking, but 1, 048 students (23.6% of population) were smoking currently.
2. Among 1,048 present smokers, 604 respondents (57.6%) were smoking every day, 909 students (86.7%) were smoking less than one pack per day and 907 smokers (86.5%) started smoking within the recent 5 years.
3. Through the unvaried analysis it was found that the general characteristics of the respondents associated statistically significantly with smoking were the interval between the graduation of high school and the entrance to college, the religion of respondents, and the religion of their parents. The major field of study and the residence were not associated with smoking.
4. The unvaried analysis showed that the smoking of the siblings or the friends was associated statistically significantly with smoking of the respondents. The attitude toward smoking of the respondents of their fathers, mothers, siblings and friends was associated with smoking of the respondents statistically significantly.
5. Through the unvaried analysis it was found that the health knowledge related with smoking and the favorable attitudes toward smoking were associated with smoking of the respondents statistically significantly.
6. Among the regular smokers, by the multivariate logistic regression analysis, smoking was found to be associated with the smoking of their friends (OR 8.28, 95% CI 4.89-14.00), longer interval between the graduation of high school and the entrance to college (OR 6.50, 95% CI 4.03-10.50), the favorable attitude toward smoking (OR 5.90, 95% CI 3.30-10.54), the indifferent attitude toward smoking by the friend (OR 4.81. 95% CI 2.81--8.25) and smoking of the siblings (OR 1.95, 95% CI 1.21-3.14).
7. Among the irregular smokers, by the multivariate logistic regression analysis, smoking was found to be associated with the favorable attitude towards smoking (OR 3.59, 95% CI 2.355.50), the smoking of their friends (OR 3.35, 95% CI 2.22-5.06), the indifferent attitude toward smoking by the friend, the longer interval between the graduation of high school and the entrance to college (OR 2.05, 95% CI 1.32-3.18) and poor health knowledge related with smoking (OR 1.59, 95% CI 1.05-2.37).
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