Arab medical students are addicted to smoking and driving fast cars reckless

Arab medical students are addicted to smoking and driving fast cars reckless

All about smoking

The survey, conducted by the Regional Office of the World Health Organization for the Eastern Mediterranean, based in Cairo, that the medical students in Egypt, Kuwait and Lebanon, are no


different from other young people with respect to tobacco addiction and eating high-calorie foods and reckless driving speeds.

The survey conducted by WHO in collaboration with the International Federation of the Association of medical students about risky behaviors among medical students that the prevalence of cigarette smoking and shisha among medical students in Egypt, Lebanon is greater than spread among medical students in Kuwait.

As varied reasons for embarking on smoking where the survey indicated that students in Lebanon and Kuwait, often brought on smoking motivated by enjoyment and recreation while most Egyptian students smoked catharsis for their sense of anger and anguish.

And behavioral patterns that revealed a spread among students of medicine in Lebanon and Kuwait, eating foods with high calories and driving at high speed while students of medicine in Egypt, so they turn to the use of sedative drugs. It is also Fortunately, the majority of students did not seek to experience drug use is that the students from Lebanon who were more experienced than their colleagues in Kuwait and Egypt with respect to alcohol abuse.

He also revealed that half of the Lebanese medical students and two-thirds of their fellow Egyptians and Kuwaitis have a clear understanding and a belief that their health is the outcome of their personal behavior moreover expressed thirds of respondents believed that medical students must play a leading role in establishing a healthier society.