Study on Whether more Students Start Smoking after Joining College (At Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore)

Aditya Hegde, Anish Dhanushkodi, Avinash Arun, Dr. Mythili G Y

Abstract: The main aim of this Paper is to show that there has found to be a tendency for students to start smoking after they have joined. There may be several reasons for that may lead them to start smoking such as peer pressure, curiosity etc. but the most important reason was found to be stress. We conducted a survey via a Google Form to see whether there is any correlation between students joining college and students starting to smoke. We will then use R Software to test our data by using the Chi Square Test as it is the most appropriate test for checking whether our hypothesis stands true or not. This will give us an idea of the current trend on a very relevant topic.

Keywords: stress, smoking, college