Identify and Explain of The Leisure Role in Smoking Among Students

Young people, especially students, are a major part of human capital in any society and it costs a lot to maintain and improve their health. Despite the known harms of smoking for health, tobacco smoking is popular among the youth and students. This research aims to explore the role of leisure in smoking among students on the basis of understanding this socially significant action. The study is a qualitative research and grounded theory has been used to achieve the study objective. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews. 50 male students, in the dormitory of YazdUniversity, were non-randomly selected to participate in the study. By analyzing the data in terms of open, axial and selective coding, five main concepts, including lack of family supervision, limited sports facilities, coffee house leisure, passive leisure and tobacco consumption, as the main categories, and a core theoretical variable, i.e. leisure as the context for tobacco consumption, were extracted. Eventually, a paradigmatic model was derived from data.