The study aimed to know the prevalence of smoking and to describe the profile and smoking habits of undergraduate students of Lins-SP. A sample of 368 undergraduate students answered a questionnaire with questions directed at smokers, ex-smokers and nonsmokers The prevalence of smoking was of 11,7%; about 85,3% of the students were nonsmokers and 4,0% were classified as ex-smokers. Of the students interviewed, 54,1% were women. It was noted that the average use was from 5,1 to 5,4 cigarettes per day, and that the students used industrialized cigarettes. This index of prevalence correlates to the ones of others University Centers and demands politics of smoking control among the university environment.
Smoking; Smoking habits; Epidemiology; Health policy
