Analyzing the effect of Anti- tobacco campaigning on Health Cost among North Western University Students, Khulna, Bangladesh

Abstract

Smoking is being considered as recent trend in youngster which is increasing day by day. In recent times, teenager smoking rate is growing alarming high because teenager considers it as their relaxation and enjoyment purposes. When an adult student consumes cigarettes, it threatens major health disaster as well as mental disaster in university students. In this paper, the author considers health cost as dependent variables when author sets some independent variables. In recent times youngster is being affected by heart-diseases, skin diseases etc. The author runs multiple regression which represents the impact of independent variables on dependent variables monthly. In this paper, it indicates that Age and educational status have negative connectivity on health cost but employment status has positive connection with health cost in NWU students. In addition, cigarettes price and anti-smoking campaigning has negative connectivity with health cost in NWU students. The policy makers in Bangladesh should launch anti-smoking polices to reduce health cost within university students.