The present study confirmed the evidence of several determinants of smoking among youth.
Factors that influence students to smoke included age, sex, family problem, performance in
school and smoking status among friends, teachers, parents and family members. With the
adjustment to covariance in the computation made, it was found out that one-year increase in
age was associated with 1.47 time odds of smoking . Vocational students were 1.8 times to
be current smokers compared to secondary school students. Students with good performance
in school (GPA [grade point average] >= 2) were less likely to smoke compared to those with
GPA