author(s)
Prabhu Kumar Y and Kalaiselvi

abstract
In India smoking expected to kill 1 million people annually by 2010 about 61 percent of men who smoke can expect to die between the ages of 30 and 69. The majority of the persons who become regular cigarette smokers begin smoking during adolescent. This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching program regarding smoking induced health hazards among young adults in selected college at Bangalore. Quasi experimental pretest and posttest design was adopted in this study without control group among male and female young adults between 18-24 years in selected college by purposive sampling technique. Results revealed that there is a gain in the knowledge of young adults after introducing STP at p>0.05 level significance. Thus Structured Teaching Programme on smoking induced health hazards has very good impact among younger population in quitting tobacco.