Abstract
Abstract
[background] Although many investigations had performed about smoking of university students, investigations about the limitations of the tobacco price of university students are rarely reported. This time we conducted an investigation into the smoking limitation awareness of cost in university students.
[Methods] With the agreement to the explanation of the investigation, questionnaire were written and collected during the athletics lecture in the second degree university students.
[Results] The number of smoking students was 53(15%) out of 337. Average age to start smoking was 16.98 + 3.06 years old. Average number of cigarette per day was 8.96 + 7.47. Average cost on smoking was 160+166 yen, some students answered that they cost no money on smoking. The average upper limit for smoking was 480±302 yen.
[Conclusion] It was suggested that the smoking of the university student was related to the low tobacco price.
