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INTRODUCTION LITERATURE REVIEW HYPOTHESIS QUESTIONNAIRE

INTRODUCTION
There is a widespread assumption that smoking behavior is largely initiated by the age of 18 years especially this trend is common among students or young

working individual. Our main aim of the survey was to therefore characterize the current smoking behavior of a given population and of subpopulations of interest and to monitor exposure to variables that are known to influence smoking.

LITERATURE REVIEW
THE SOUL OF LITERATURE REVIEW WAS: David Hammond (2005) found that there is a widespread assumption that smoking behavior is largely established by the age of 18 years. (David Hammond, Smoking behavior among young adults: beyond youth prevention,Tob Control BMJ 2005;14:181-185 ) Pamela M.Ling (2002) added that efforts to encounter

tobacco marketing campaign should include people of all ages particularly young adults, rather than
concentrating on teen and young children. (Pamela M.Ling, et.al, JAMA, 2002, 287:2987-2989)

LITERATURE REVIEW
As the recent Surgeon Generals report concludes, almost

all adult smokers first use cigarettes by high school graduation, while almost no first use occurs after age twenty. Thus, tobacco control policies which
discourage cigarette smoking in this age group may be the most effective way of achieving long run reductions in smoking in all segments of the population. (Frank J. Chaloupka, Michael Grossman ,1996, Price, tobacco control policies and youth smoking, NBER working paper series)

LITERATURE REVIEW
These empirical results suggest a middle ground between extreme skepticism and credulity on peer effects in

youth smoking: peers are moderately influential in a young persons decision to smoke.
(Brian V Krauth, Peer effects and selection effects on smoking among Canadian youth, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. July 1, 2007, 25(3): 288-298. )

LITERATURE REVIEW
Conrad KM (1992) concluded We review findings

from 27 prospective studies of the onset of cigarette smoking conducted since 1980. Almost 300 measures of predictors of smoking onset were examined.
(Conrad KM, Flay BR, Hill D, Why children start smoking cigarettes: predictors of onset, British journal of addiction,1992 Dec; 87(12):1711-24)

HYPOTHESIS
MAJORITY OF PEOPLE START SMOKING DUE TO

PEER PRESSURE PEOPLE ARE NOT AWARE OF THE HEALTH RISK OF SMOKING MAJORITY OF SMOKERS ARE YOUNG ADULTS SMOKERS THINK SMOKING IS A SYMBOL OF FASHION PEOPLE SMOKE BACAUSE THEIR FRIENDS SMOKE

QUESTIONNAIRE
TARGET POPULATION IS WORKING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS.

QUESTIONNAIRE IS BASED ON 10 CLOSE ENDED

QUESTIONS AND 1 OPEN ENDED QUESTION OF COMMENTS

ALL CLOSE ENDED QUESTION WERE BASED ON

PAIRED COMPARASION METHOD.