Cigarette Smoking Pattern and the Effect on the Airway among University of Port Harcourt Medical Students

Abstract

Background           

Tobacco or cigarette smoking is a habit which could cause morbidity and even immortality sometimes to the individual involved.

Some involved in the practice are sometimes ignorant of the hazards posed by the act of smoking. This study seeks to find out believes amongst medical students in a tertiary centre.

Methodology: this is a cross- sectional study of (200) two-hundred students in which questionnaires were introduced to each student for response. About (30) questions were presented and various response from these students were recorded and analysed.

Results:

200 responders were involved in the study. (144) (72%) one hundred and forty-four male and 56 (28%) females with male /female ration of 2:1 most smokers were within age range 20-24 (45%). 60 (30%) sixty of them were smokers at the time of response and 79 (39%) were out rightly non-smokers.

Conclusion:

Medical education or education has not had drastic reduction in the habit of smoking. Friends present greater influence on the habit. Majority believe it can give rise to cancer, especially in the living.