• ARUNAJYOTHI BHOLE

ABSTRACT The present study attempted to assess the knowledge and attitude of tobacco use among college students at Lucknow. Objectives inciude 1. Assess the knowledge and attitude of students regarding tobacco use.2. Find out relationship between knowledge and attitude of the students regarding tobacco use.3. Find out the association between the knowledge and selected socio-demographic variables.4. Find out the association between the attitude and selected socio-demographic variables. Material And MethodsThe design selected was non-experimental descriptive research design. The study was conducted on 120 students of govt polytechnic college at Lucknow. Systematic random sampling technique was used to select the sample. The tool included baseline proforma and knowledge, attitude, questionnaire about use of tobacco, ill effects and de-addiction. The data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. Major findings revealed that 57% of students had knowledge regarding tobacco where as only 40% had the knowledge of ill effects of tobacco on human being, 45.5% had the knowledge about the de-addiction of tobacco use. Calculated χ2 shows there is highly significant association between knowledge and attitude of student towards tobacco use. Regarding attitude towards tobacco use the 77% had healthy positive attitude and only 16.5% had negative attitude towards it. The χ2 test showed that there was statistically significant relationship (p<.001)between knowledge and attitude of student towards tobacco use. Calculated χ2 test showed that there was significant relationship P<.001 between knowledge and tobacco use. Hence there is an urgent need for the health care providers for developing programs for prevention and eradication of tobacco use from

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"ARUNAJYOTHI BHOLE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.140-143, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807173.pdf

"ARUNAJYOTHI BHOLE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp140-143, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807173.pdf