On May 28, 2014, at PSU hostel № 4 there took place “Belarus against tobacco” action which was attended by 193 students. Organizer was a psychologist Lyubov Kravtsova.
During the campaign a small opinion poll was held. Participants were asked to give an honest answer to what category of people did they belong to: 1) those who do not smoke; 2) those who smoke and are satisfied with it; 3) for those who want to quit smoking. Smokers received the handout “How to quit smoking?”.
The results of the interview were somewhat unexpected. Hard to believe, but 81% of the students living in the Hostel № 4, pleaded nonsmokers. Half of the remaining 19% of smokers want to give up this bad habit. It was nice to see that the majority of boys and girls confidently put tokens in a “non-smoking” box and only a few recognized their friend tobacco.
Action lasted one and a half hours and all the time we had a voluntary observer – G. Garmanova on duty, so the data was highly reliable.
We are very happy for our students who do not smoke! How great is the large majority of students do not smoke!