A survey of smoking habits among students in the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur

A survey of smoking habits among the students attending the Student Health Clinic for various ailments showed:
(1) Smoking in women is very uncommon (only 2 out of 79; 2.53%)
(2) About 30% of men smoke (106 out of 322; 32.9%)
3. The majority of these had commenced smoking before they entered the university.
4. The majority smoked filter tipped brands.
5. Where the mothers in the family smoked, the sons seem to take to smoking more readily.
6. Knowledge of the effects of smoking on health was poor, but equal in all three groups viz in women and in both smoking and non-smoking men.