SMOKING PREVALENCE AND RELATIVE FACTORS IN MALES:ISFAHAN 2002

Introduction: Smoking is one of the sanitary problems in world today. Increasing smoking of cigarette and other tobacco products has concerned health managers and community responsible. In recent decades, smoking has increased specially in developing countries and the smokers are adding every year.Method: This is cross-sectional study that has done on men with at least 15 years old in Isfahan. Data was collected by a questionnaire at homes on summer, 2002.The samples were 1600 and the variables included: age, marriage status, level of education, job, smoking status (king and quanta), and age of beginning to smoke and precedence of smoking.Results: Data showed that 21.5% of individuals were smoking cigarette; 10.4% hooka and 1.5% pipe.The age of beginning to smoke cigarette was under 20 years in 67.6% of cases. Smoking was more prevalent in adults. Workers with 32.7% were smoking more and students with 5% and scholars with 6.7% were smoking less than others. Smoking was relative to level of education. Marriage men smoked 2.5 times more than singles.Discussion: The results showed that in comparison with other areas in Iran, Isfahan men are smoking further especially for hooka and pipe. Also it has become a new problem that the younger smoke hooka and pipe more than past, because the people thinks that those are less harmful that cigarette.