Table 2 Cigarette smoking behavior of the participants at the QTC
Categories | Number | Percent | |
|---|---|---|---|
Brand of cigarettes mostly smoked | Dunhill | 51 | 15.5 |
Marlboro | 86 | 26.1 | |
LM | 58 | 17.6 | |
Davidoff | 70 | 21.2 | |
Others | 65 | 19.7 | |
Total | 330 | 100 | |
The reason to start cigarette smoking | Friends | 110 | 33.7 |
Personal Problems | 21 | 06.4 | |
Imitation | 20 | 06.1 | |
Experimentation | 50 | 15.3 | |
Curiosity | 12 | 3.7 | |
Teenage | 14 | 4.3 | |
Others | 99 | 30.4 | |
Total | 326 | 100 | |
The first cigarette smoked daily | Within 5 min | 123 | 36.7 |
6–30 min | 75 | 22.4 | |
31–60 min | 90 | 26.9 | |
Other | 47 | 14.0 | |
Total | 335 | 100 | |
The reason to start waterpipe smoking | Friends | 46 | 46.5 |
Experimentation | 21 | 21.2 | |
Curiosity | 12 | 12.1 | |
Others | 20 | 20.2 | |
Total | 99 | 100 | |
Brand of waterpipe mostly smoked | Naklah | 6 | 10.0 |
Fakher | 46 | 76.7 | |
Mixed | 3 | 5.0 | |
Don’t Know | 5 | 8.3 | |
Total | 60 | 100 |