ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to find out the causes and effect of smoking on secondary school students in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State using a random sampling method, a total of 100 questionnaires were administered to 25 students in Iguedaiken Grammar School, 25 were administered to students in Igbinosa Secondary School, 25 were also administered to students in Okokhuo Grammar School and 25 students in Isewa Grammar School, majority of them started smoking in their secondary school days, while others started in other schools. Various reasons were given for smoking ranging from relaxation while some respondents said they cannot tell because they don’t smoke and majority of them smoke 1-4 sticks of cigarette per day. Some were influenced by their friends or parents from the study, it was found that cigarette smoking is habit forming and has some long term illness in man such as mental illness or memory impairment, cancer agoraphobia, anxiety disorder and panic disorder, lack of reading, lack of concentration, absent mindedness which can result to poor academic performance.
