internet addiction associated with smoking and educational status of university stude

background: widespread use of the internet, lack of proper use and non-targeted searches, not only moves the students far from the main mission of the internet in the university but also will impact adversely on their academic status . the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between internet addiction with academic status and smoking in lorestan university of medical sciences, iran. methods: this study was conducted on 368 students of lorestan medical university. a yang standard internet addiction questionnaire was applied for data gathering and data was analyzed with t-test, anova, tukey, mann withney, kruskal-wallis, eta and spearman correlation coefficient in 0.05 significant level. findings: from a total of 368 students that participated in the study, 163 patients (44.3%) were male and 205 (55.7%) were female. 63.3% of them had moderate dependency and 7.3% had a sever addiction to internet. all of the students with sever dependency had declined in academic status. there was a significant relation between decline in academic status and smoking with the mean score of internet addiction. it also showed a direct correlation between educational level and using internet. there was also an inverse relationship between average education level and internet using (p < 0.01). conclusion: the prevalence of internet dependency in this study was concerning and it seems that the time for intervention to prevent physical and psychological effects of internet addiction has arrived.