Background and Aims: Smoking are extremely increasing among students where e-cigarette was initially to call out to in order to stop smoking traditional cigarette due to the tobacco content which absent in e-cigarette. Traditional cigarette contains an anumeration of chemicals that are demonstrated destructive to life.
Materials and methods: This cross-sectional study is done among 18 to 26 years old male students who are studying in universities or colleges around area Shah Alam. The aim of the study is to understand health and social impact, physical dependence on nicotine and preference on type of cigarette in using traditional, electronic or dual cigarette among universities or colleges’ students studying around area Shah Alam. A quantitative study on 180 students who answered self administered questionnaire.
Results: A great quantity of students admitted that they prefer in using dual cigarette (48.9%), rather than traditional cigarette (29.4%) and e-cigarette (21.7) separately. Whereas, the assessment of physical dependence on nicotine among students have very crucial evidence that mostly are moderate dependence (52.8%) on nicotine compared to low dependence (3.9%), low to moderate (38.9%) and high dependence (4.4%) which significantly more likely participants are dependent on nicotine [ė²:15.364;df:4;p:0.018;N:180]. The health effects on smokers are very less found in this study which are cough (31.7%), wheeze when breathing (13.3%), short of breath (13.9%), frequent mouth or throat irritation (30.6%) and difficulty in breathing like a sensation of pressure (13.9%) respectively which they answered yes.
Conclusion: Cigarette smoking can be reduced among male students in area Shah Alam due to students are highly motivated and educated on the side effects from smoking even if health or social.