Total Smoking Ban on an University Campus and Acquisition of Smoking Habits

  • Nakashima Motoko
    Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Kanazawa Medical University
  • Morikawa Yuko
    Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Nursing, Kanazawa Medical University Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Kanazawa Medical University
  • Hamazaki Yuko
    Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Kanazawa Medical University
  • Sakurai Sihomi
    Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Kanazawa Medical University
  • Kitagawa Junko
    Department of Health Care for Students, Kanazawa Medical University
  • Sakurai Masaru
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Kanazawa Medical University
  • Nakagawa Hideaki
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Kanazawa Medical University

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  • 大学敷地内全面禁煙と喫煙習慣獲得に関する検討
  • ダイガク シキチナイ ゼンメン キンエン ト キツエン シュウカン カクトク ニ カンスル ケントウ

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Abstract

<p> This study aimed to examine if a total smoking ban on an university Campus prevents the acquisition of smoking habits in students after entering the university.</p><p> The subjects were 1,192 first-year students who entered a medical school between 2001 and 2011. At periodic health examinations, a self-administered questionnaire was used to examine their smoking status at entrance and one year later. In this survey, the subjects were tracked for one year and examined their smoking status. The percentages of subjects who acquired smoking habit and those who quitted smoking during the observational period were compared before and after the total smoking ban.</p><p> In male students, the mean percentage of new smokers was 11.5% before the smoking ban but 3.6% after the ban, indicating a significant reduction (chi-square test; p<0.01). In contrast, the percentage of subjects who quitted smoking was 2.8% before the ban and 3.6% after the ban, indicating an increase but not significant. In female students, there was no significant difference between before and after the ban in the percentage of new smokers or subjects who quitted smoking.</p>

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