Table 1.
General characteristics of participants (n = 2623)
| Variables | Number (%) |
|---|---|
| Gender | |
| Male | 1044 (39.8 %) |
| Female | 1579 (60.2 %) |
| Age | |
| <15 years | 45 (1.7 %) |
| 15 - 19 years | 1461 (55.7 %) |
| 20 - 24 years | 1057 (40.3 %) |
| 25 - 29 years | 60 (2.3 %) |
| Year of education | |
| 5th | 415 (15.8 %) |
| 6th | 1336 (50.9 %) |
| 7th | 872 (33.3 %) |
| Have ever smoked a cigarette | |
| Yes | 879 (33.5 %) |
| No | 1744 (66.5 %) |
| Have repeated a class | |
| Yes | 1972 (75.2 %) |
| No | 651 (24.8 %) |
| Type of education | |
| General | 1868 (71.2 %) |
| Technical and vocational | 755 (28.8 %) |
| School status | |
| Public | 395 (15.1 %) |
| Private | 2228 (84.9 %) |
| Knowledge of warmful effects smoking | |
| Yes | 2070 (78.9 %) |
| No | 553 (21.1 %) |
| Smoked the last 30 days | |
| Yes | 270 (10.3 %) |
| No | 2353 (89.7%) |
| Smoking status | |
| Non smoker | 2330 (88.8 %) |
| Regular smoker | 221 (8.4 %) |
| Occasional smoker | 72 (2.8 %) |