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KMID : 0608420080210020097
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Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
2008 Volume.21 No. 2 p.97 ~ p.105
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A Study of Major Characteristics of Buying Cigarettes in Adolescent Smokers in Korea
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Shin Sun-Mi
Lee Hee-Woo
Kang Se-Won
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Abstract
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Purpose : To investigate major characteristics influencing on adolescent smoking in Korea
Method : The subjects were 431 students (298 male and 133 female) enrolled in the non smoking program at Seoul School Health Promotion Center from March 2006 to February 2007. The survey was done about motivation of smoking the way of getting cigarettes and frequency, chi-square test and t-test by SAS package 8.1 were used to analyze the data
Result : Total 431 subjects were composed of 49.2% middle school students, 50.8% high school students. The middle school students who smoke 1 to less than 10 cigarettes per day wens 56.1% and 10 to less than 20 cigarettes per day 26.7% while high school students were 46.8% and 44.1%, 73.1% of male and 76.9% of female students selected the cigarettes depending on taste and fragrance. The places of buying cigarettes were supermarkets 67% convenience stores 19.4% small stores 11.8% A high percentage of students answered they did not have to show ID when they bought cigarettes("rarely checked the ID" 25.2% of male and 30.8% of female" did not checked at all" was 10.9% male and 9.6% female) The ratio of spending money on buying cigarettes was 38.8% and 356% in male and female middle school and 37.9% and 27.29% in male and female high school
Conclusion : Findings of this study suggests the constituting of strong social regulations to protect youth from smoking.
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KEYWORD
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adolescent smokers buying cigarettes
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