Fattori generazionali e di genere nel rapporto con il fumo

The aim of this research was to verify if there are different smoking behaviours between young and adult people and between males and females. It was done a research on a champion of 676 people. Data regarding the reasons of smoking beginning where submitted to factorial analysis. The main results regarding the generations are: there are more adult than young smokers but young people begins to smoke earlier (at about 16 years). The first factor that justified the beginning is related with personal difficulties. For young people the second factor is related with the need of membership to peer group and the third is related with adult emulation and boredom. The 33,0% never tried to stop. There are no generational differences between young and adult when cannot smoke: both become nervous and eat. The greatest difference is related with diffusion of smoking custom. The other behaviours are related with the status of smoker, regardless the age of people. Regarding the gender, the differences are referable to the attempt of given up smoking (males has tried more time than females) and to reactions when cannot smoke, when males become more nervous than females and females became more insecure.