Statement: A comparative study to assess the health status among smokers and non-smokers at selected community area, at karaikal. Objectives § To assess the health status among smokers § To assess the health status among non-smokers § To compare the health status among smokers and non-smokers Research Design and Method: Quantitative approach with non-experimental descriptive design was used to comparative study to assess the health status among smokers and non-smokers at selected community are, karaikal. Results: The study result shows that among 30 men, 15(100%) men smokers and 15(100%) men non-smokers. The result of the study revealed that difference between the smokers and non-smokers among 15 (100%) of non-smokers all had moderate health status and among 15 smokers 1(6.7%) of the smokers had moderate health status, 14(93.3%) smokers had poor health status. Conclusion: The comparison of health status among smokers and non-smokers using questionnaires method in selected community area karaikal. This study results shows that smokers health status was poor compare to the non-smokers.