남자 고등학생의 흡연실태 및 학교생활 태도

Smoking Status and School Life Attitudes of Male High School Students in Chungbuk Area

The purpose of this study was to investigate smoking status of high school students, and the effect of smoking on school life attitudes. A total of 370 male students in Jinchun-kun were asked to complete a self-administered questionnaire, and the data of 355 students were analyzed. Thirty-seven percents of the respondents smoked. Among the smokers, 34% started smoking from the first year of high school and 26% from the third year of middle school. Fifty eight percents of the smokers started smoking due to curiosity, and 21% for relaxing from stress. Smokers spent more money than non-smokers. More smokers were dissatisfied with school life, made poor academic achievements, and had girl friends compared to non-smokers. These results indicate that a smoking student had several undesirable characteristics as a student. Therefore, education for the effects of smoking should be offered to high school students and even to middle school students in order not to start smoking as well as to abstain from smoking.