Knowledge and use of e-cigarettes among nursing students: results from a cross-sectional survey in north-eastern Italy

Table 3 Tobacco smoking among nursing students of Verona University by demographic characteristics

	n	Past smokers (n = 146)	Occasional smokers (n = 169)	Regular smokers (n = 407)	p-value
Gender^a					0.002
Men	312	39 (12.5)	37 (11.9)	111 (35.6)
Women	1070	105 (9.8)	130 (12.1)	283 (26.4)
Class^a					0.137
1st	430	30 (7.0)	60 (14.0)	122 (28.4)
2nd	461	62 (13.4)	50 (10.8)	118 (25.6)
3rd	512	54 (10.5)	58 (11.3)	166 (32.4)
Centre					0.430
Verona	549	48 (8.7)	65 (11.8)	168 (30.6)
Vicenza	236	21 (8.9)	30 (12.7)	69 (29.2)
Legnago	197	24 (12.2)	21 (10.7)	59 (29.9)
Trento	172	21 (12.2)	25 (14.5)	35 (20.3)
Bolzano	251	32 (12.7)	28 (11.2)	76 (30.3)

Numbers of past, occasional and regular smokers were reported with percent frequencies in parentheses. p-values were computed by Fisher’s exact test for gender, chi-square test for trend for class and chi-square test for centre. Significant results are highlighted in bold
^aInformation on gender and university class was not reported by 25 and 2 students, respectively

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