Giresun İlinde Lise Öğrencilerinin Sigara, Alkol ve Uyuşturucu Alışkanlıklarının Araştırılması

In a neighbouring town of Giresun, a questionairre was conducted on 823 high-school students to investigate high-school students' habit of cigaratte-smoking, alcohol-drinking and narcotic-taking, including their habit of participation in social and cultural activities. In the study were included totally 823 students, of whom 486 are female students (%59) and the rest are male ones (%41).The results obtained indicated that male students' habit of cigaratte-smoking(%18.2) was remarkably more common than that of their female counterparts (%5.1) No significant difference was found between male (%13.7) and female students (%5.1) in terms of alcohol consumption. As for the narcotic-consumtion, the rate of the students who answered the questionairre was found to be %1 . It was also found that %38.2 of the parents of the students who were involved in the study did not use tabacco or smoke cigaratte. The results also showed that %1L7 of the students who were out of sports and cultural activities smoked cigaratte, % 6.7 drank alcohol, and % 0.7 took narcotic. Furthermore, %88 of the students involved in such activities did not smoke cigaratte, %83.9 did not drink alcohol and %89.6 did not take narcotic. The number of those who were informed of the harms of cigaratte-smoking or tabacco consumption was 704 (%85.5 ), whereas the number of the uninformed was 24 (%2.9 ). Th reason why cigaratte-smoking was found to so common particularly among the male students despite so much gain of information about the harmful effects of cigaratte-smoking can be explainable through Festinger's 'Theory of Cognitive Paradox'. Consequently, a different method should be followed by the associations concerned and educational institutes to inform people of the harmful effects of cigaratte, alcohol and narcotic.