Beliefs and attitudes towards smoking in middle and higher education fields

Abstract

With the purpose of stablishing the relationship among tobacco consumption beliefs and attitudes towards smoking, 537 female and male students of public high superior level schools were interviewed. The position is, how the beliefs of (tobacco consequences smokers features social norms), attitudes (intentional disposition for tobacco consumption, dislike for tobacco consumption, satisfaction perception for tobacco consumption) are related to smoking behavior smoking intentions at home, with friends to beliefs and attitudes themselves? Design: Intragroup, multivariate and former-post-facto. Across-field study for the four applied scales was carried. Reliability indexes and adequate validity were obtained. Men smoke in a 38.6% and 61.4% of women; they said they did it and all began smoking mainly in the high school. The possibility of applying the obtained findingings    in the design of programs for the prevention and treatment of smoking in youths is discussed.