Smoking statues and some relative factors to it in high school students in Isfahan

Background: Cigarette smoking, so current between the youngsters and adolescents is one of the greatest enemies of public health. This study has designed to determine the smoking patterns of the high school and pre-university students in Isfahan. Methods: This cross sectional study has been done on 355 high school students in 2004-5. For data collection a cheklist has been applied which was answered by the students. The smoking pattern has been evaluated by standard questionnaire of WHO and its relation with personal characteristics of the students has been analyzed. The statistical analysis was done using t-test, chi-square and logistic regression in SPSS software. Results: The results indicated that 10.3% of students were smoker and 37.9% of them had experienced smoking at least for one time. The evaluation of data showed that the age of students had no significant relationship with smoking patern but the employment of students had a significant relationship with smoking pattern. Having smoker friends had also a significant relationship with smoking. Conclusion: The results of this study indicated that the studied students had great tendencies to experience smoking and by increasing the rate of smoker friends, the weekly and daily smoking pattern will increased.