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Aim: Smoking is a serious threat for human health. In the present day, smoking has become a global epidemic. The aim of this study is to determine smoking rates of people who admitted to hospital for control without having chronic illness. Material and Metod: People who admitted to Internal diseases, Diabetes and Family Physician polyclinics of Istanbul Medeniyet University Göztepe Training and Research Hospital between 01 Sep 2011 and 01 Apr 2012 for general health control without having chronic illness, have been enrolled for this study after their consent. Evaluation was performed with a questionnaire prepared by us and these questionnaires were filled by patients. Findings: In our study, there were totally 221 participants as 60 male (%27.15) and 161 female (%72.85). It was determined that 74 people (%33.48) of all participants smoker and 50 (%67.57) of them were female and 24 (%32.43) of them were male. Study participants were divided into groups according to age as 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60 and over. According to these age groups, it was seen that 30-39 age group has the highest smoking rate with 34 (%45.94). Discussion: According to data of Turkey Statistical Agency, it was determined that smoking rate of adults in Turkey was %31.3 in 2008 and it was %27 in 2012. This rate decreased from 47.9% to 41.4% among males and from 15.2% to 13.1% among females. In our study, overall smoking rate %33.48 is higher than Turkey’s average and especially smoking rate among females %67.57 is dramatically high. Conclusion: Our study show that smoking rate is higher than Turkey’s average. In additional, our study shows that importance of fighting and there are much more actions to be taken ones more.

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