A two-part questionnaire was circulated within a women's college. In the first part open-ended questions were used to obtain information on such topics as: age of starting to smoke, reasons for starting, reasons for continuance of the practice, attitudes toward cancer. Results generally agreed with earlier work with different populations. In the second part of the questionnaire the approach was more projective, Ss being asked to describe smokers and their imagined environments. Considerable stereotypy of imagery was evident.
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