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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2624</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url">http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2019.11161</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Smoking Behavior among Bangladeshi Young Adults: Insights from a Smoking Survey of University Students in Dhaka City&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Majumder</surname><given-names>Senjuti</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Shoma</surname><given-names>Shahanaj Parvin</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>17</day><month>08</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><volume>6)</volume><issue/><fpage>1</fpage><lpage>4</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: Smoking has become an important public health issue in recent years, but little is known about how smokers position themselves and regulate their behavior in this context.&#13;
Objective: The study was aimed to investigate the trends of cigarette smoking __ampersandsignamp; the concomitant perception of young adults towards it.&#13;
Methods: A prospective cross sectional study was carried out at renowned 5 universities of Dhaka city. Around 250 students filled-out the questionnaires based on cigarette smoking and were evaluated in between July, 2015 to December, 2015.&#13;
Results: This survey has been shown that most of the smokers are male and the number of female smoker is also increasing. We also learnt different kinds of people__ampersandsignrsquo;s perception regarding smoking. Moreover, we identified that although maximum participants knew that smoking can cause cancer and chronic respiratory diseases, they continued smoking. From the survey we have come to understand that, day by day the number of smokers has been increasing rapidly. To quit smoking is quite impossible to the young smokers.&#13;
Conclusion: Our awareness can show them a light of life. For this, we need to come forward and help them to quit smoking. Media advertising, campaigning, social awareness, education etc. can help us to prevent smoking.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Smoking</kwd><kwd> Harmful</kwd><kwd> Young adults</kwd><kwd> Attitudes</kwd><kwd> Regulation</kwd><kwd> Awareness</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
