Chapter+1+(Introduction)

1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Information Smoking is a bad phenomena that getting worse in Malaysia. This bad habit is commonly involves young generation like teenagers. Young (1989) discovered great majority of smokers starts the habit before 20 years of age. There are many reasons for smoking such as alleviation of stress and life problems. We will do survey about smoking in University Malaysia Pahang. The respondents are student of this university. We will provide questionnaire to 50 selected students with different background such as gender, age, race, religion and course. We want to know the percentage of students who are smokers. We also want to know why do they take cigarette. Plus, we also want to know the opinion among students about smoking. So this report will help us to choose either smoking is good for us or not.

1.2 Definition of terms Overcome, · to defeat or conquer. Smoking, · the habit of smoking cigarettes.

1.3 Research Objectives 1. To know the percentage among students who are smokers. 2. To know why do they take cigarette. 3. To know opinion and suggestion from student about smoking.

1.4 Research Questions 1. How many of students are smokers? 2. Why do they choose to smoke? 3. What do they think about smoking?