Características sociodemográficas y perfil de consumo de tabaco y drogas en estudiantes de dos universidades de México

Introduction: Tobacco consumption is the leading cause of premature preventable death and disease worldwide, as well the drug use and abuse is a serious public health problem and health care high costs. The tobacco and drugs consumption is addressed from the epidemiologic and public health point of view, also the socio-demographic factors influencing addiction to them. Objetive: Describe the sociodemographic and tobacco and drugs consumption characteristics among college students from Yucatan and Coahuila Materials and methods: Cross sectional survey that included 412 college students from Yucatan and 344 from Coahuila. Descriptive statistics were used for the numeric variables, frequencies for the qualitative, inferential statistics for the similarities and differences. Results: The mean of the age was higher for Yucatan students and men predominated, the mean of the tobacco consumers within people from their social network was higher for Coahuila being the differences statistically significant p