THE REGIONAL STATISTIC MODELS OF TOBACCO SMOKING

The representative sampling of 1027 smoking residents of Chuvashia (737 males and 290 females aged from 16 to 90 years, mean age — 35.8±13.4 years) was used to calculate the statistic models of tobacco smoking tobacco addiction, willingness for denial and break of tobacco smoking. The factorial model included nine indicators predicting tobacco smoking in the republic for 79.4% (motives and duration of tobacco smoking, age of respondent, number of smoked cigarettes per day, intensity of tobacco addiction, time of smoking first cigarette after wake up, desire to stop smoking tobacco). The valuable factors impacting the forecasting of tobacco smoking also included gender, university education, cigarettes brand, level of nicotine and tar in one cigarette. The established patterns can increase the effectiveness of anti-nicotine curative preventive activities in the region.

tobacco smoking, tobacco addiction, Chuvashia, multi-factorial model