In order to find smoking status and its related factors for female students, a survey was conducted for 1,045 female students of a women´s university in Seoul from 22nd of May to 18th of June, 1995.
The results were as follows :
1. Of the 1,045 respondents, 7.4% of them were current smokers and 20.6% of them were ex-smokers. The rate of smoking by the major field of study was 18.5% in art and physical education, 10.6% in liberal art and social science, 1.9% in natural science. and 1.2% in medical science. The rate of smoking by the grade was 4.1% in the freshman, 5.9% in the sophomore, 10.9% in the junior, and 10.0% in the senior grade.
2. 7.2% of respondents experienced first smoking at junior high school, 16.8% at senior high school, 4.1% after high school, and 69.2% at college.
3. The major motivation to start smoking was ´curiosity´(57.9%), ´releasing stress´(21.6%), and ´temptation from friend or senior´(12.0%).
4. The first smoking place was ´entertainment place´(49.6%), ´own room´(20.5%), and ´school´(11.3%). And the first smoking companion was ´friend´(62.3%), ´alone´(19.9%), and ´senior or junior´(5.1%).
5. The average quantity of a daily smoking was 6.16±5.29 cigarettes in current smokers and 31.2% of them had experience to quit smoking at least one or more time.
6. Most of the reasons to quit smoking in ex-smoker were due to ´bad taste´(60.5%), ´health concern´(27.4%) and ´religion´(2.3%).
7. Current smoker and ex-smoker had more positive attitude for the female smoking than nonsmoker. And 76.7% of nonsmokers answered that they would not smoke in the future.
8. Most correspondents(89.9% of nonsmoker, 83.7% of ex-smoker, 80.5% of current smoker strongly supported the antismoking movement.
9. The major information source in smoking were form ´radio, TV´(51.0%), ´newspaper, magazine´(38.8%), and ´school´(7.7%).
10. The multiple logistic regression analysis showed that the related factors for smoking status were satisfaction of home life coffee intake, alcohol drinking, sister´s smoking, girl friend´s smoking, and knowledge about smoking.
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