The 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health

Objective: To investigate college students' smoking behavior and its related factors in Hangzhou, and to provide scientific evidences for developing an appropriate tobacco control mode among college students in our country.

Methods: Questionnaire investigation was made among 742 students from two colleges in Hangzhou, and significant factors were selected by applying the method of multi-factors Logistic Regression Analysis.

Results: The smoking rate of male students was 73.0%, and female students 31.6%. Male's rate was significantly higher than female's. The main smoking motive was the thought of not to refuse others' offer. The main social psychological factors that affected college students' smoking behavior were parents', relatives', and friends' smoking behavior, intimates' attitude towards smoking, history of drinking (days of drinking in the past one month), depression, anxiety, and irascibility.