RESULTS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE ABOUT NURSE STUDENTS SMOKING-HABITS AND KNOWLEDGES IN AN ITALIAN TEACHING SCHOOL OF NURSING

Six-hundred and sixty-two nurse students (aged 25.2 +/- 4.11 years; 15 3 were males) answered a self-administered, anonymous questionnaire ab out smoking habits and knowledges in a large urban Teaching School of Nursing. The overall response rate was 88%. Current smokers were 336 ( 51%), former smokers 80 (12%). Nurse students claimed to know the dang ers of tobacco and nurse training seemed to modify the preferential so urce of information about tobacco smoking towards medical fonts; howev er, only a quarter of nurse students considered medical smoking cessat ion approaches as useful for quitting and advised patients with tobacc o-related diseases against smoking.