Differential Influence of Parental Smoking and Friends' Smoking on Adolescent Initiation and Escalation and Smoking

Flay, Brian R.; Hu, Frank B.; Siddiqui, Ohidul; Day, L. Edward; Hedeker, Donald; Petraitis, John; Richardson, Jean L.; Sussman, Steve

doi:10.2307/2137279

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“…There is considerable evidence in the literature that the smoking behaviour of friends has a major influence on the current and future smoking of adolescents and young adults (Flay et al, 1994(Flay et al, , 1998Distefan et al, 1998;Engels et al, 1999;Chassin et al, 2000;Leatherdale et al, 2005). If, as our study found, MZ pairs are more similar in their friends' smoking behaviours than are DZ pairs, this could explain some or all of the greater correlation of smoking observed in MZ twins.…”

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Does smoking among friends explain apparent genetic effects on current smoking in adolescence and young adulthood?

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We used data from a prospective cohort study of twins to investigate the influence of unmeasured genetic and measured and unmeasured environmental factors on the smoking behaviour of adolescents and young adults. Twins were surveyed in 1988 (aged 11 -18 years), 1991, 1996 and 2004 with data from 1409, 1121, 732 and 758 pairs analysed from each survey wave, respectively. Questionnaires assessed the smoking behaviour of twins and the perceived smoking behaviour of friends and parents. Using a novel logistic regression analysis, we simultaneously modelled individual risk and excess concordance for current smoking as a function of zygosity, survey wave, parental smoking and peer smoking. Being concordant for having peers who smoked was a predictor of concordance for current smoking (Po0.001). After adjusting for peer smoking, monozygotic (MZ) pairs were no more alike than dizygotic pairs for current smoking at waves 2, 3 and 4. Genetic explanations are not needed to explain the greater concordance for current smoking among adult MZ pairs. However, if they are invoked, the role of genes may be due to indirect effects acting through the social environment. Smoking prevention efforts may benefit more by targeting social factors than attempting to identify genetic factors associated with smoking. Smoking is an important cause of preventable mortality and morbidity in later life (Ezzati and Lopez, 2004), so there is a need to understand the factors associated with its uptake and establishment. Twin studies have the potential to identify whether genetic factors might play a role in explaining individual variation in smoking behaviours. The observation that identical (monozygotic; MZ) twin pairs are more similar than same-sex non-identical (dizygotic; DZ) twin pairs is often interpreted as showing that genetic factors play a role, because this finding is consistent with such an explanation under the assumptions of the classic twin model (CTM). One of the main assumptions of the CTM is that the effects of the shared environment on the relevant trait are the same for MZ and DZ pairs (the equal environments assumption (EEA)). Under this assumption, any greater similarity for MZ pairs compared with DZ pairs is attributed to their greater genetic similarity.Using the CTM, studies of the smoking behaviour of adult twins have been interpreted as showing that genetic factors play a major role in both initiation and persistence of smoking (Carmelli et al,

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“…These effects of mother's lifetime smoking likely capture a variety of environmental factors, for example exposure to secondhand smoke, which increases the risk of ND (Belanger et al, 2008;Okoli, Richardson, Ratner, & Johnson, 2009), behavioral modeling (Kalesan et al, 2006;Pedersen & Lavik, 1991), parental views of smoking (Banks et al, 1981;Flay et al, 1994;Nolte et al, 1983), and perceived availability of cigarettes (Doubeni et al, 2008;Doubeni, Li, Fouayzi, & DiFranza, 2009;Woodruff et al, 2003). Additionally, mother's lifetime smoking may transmit separate genetic risks than does MSP, since specific genetic factors influence different aspects of smoking independently (Maes et al, 2004).…”

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Exploring Alternate Processes Contributing to the Association Between Maternal Smoking and the Smoking Behavior Among Young Adult Offspring

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Wakschlag²,

Dierker³

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Nicotine & Tobacco Research

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introduction: Maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSP) is a known risk factor for regular smoking in young adulthood and may pose a risk independently of mother's lifetime smoking. The processes through which MSP exerts this influence are unknown but may occur through greater smoking quantity and frequency following initiation early in adolescence or increased sensitivity to nicotine dependence (ND) at low levels of smoking.

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“…These protective factors likely operate during adolescence and young adulthood when initiation of use of both alcohol and tobacco is most common. Certain environmental influences during adolescence such as peers, parents, and religious beliefs, may limit both exposure to alcohol and exposure to tobacco during this time in life (Cohen et al, 1994;Flay et al, 1994;Flay et al, 1999). However, longitudinal studies also have shown that there is a bidirectional influence between smoking and alcohol initiation in adolescence that appears to be independent of common potential third factors (Jackson et al, 2002;Wetzels et al, 2003).…”

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Cigarette smoking and the lifetime alcohol involvement continuum

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Papandonatos

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Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Greater understanding of how alcohol use relates to the initiation, progression, and persistence of cigarette smoking is of great significance for efforts to prevent and treat smoking and excessive drinking and their substantial combined iatrogenic effects on health. Studies investigating the relationship between levels of alcohol involvement and smoking have typically been limited by analytic approaches that treat drinking behavior and alcohol use disorder diagnoses as separate phenomena rather than as indicators of a single latent alcohol involvement dimension. The purposes of the present study were (a) to create a lifetime index of alcohol involvement that integrates information about alcohol consumption and alcohol problems into a single measure and (b) to relate this index to initiation of smoking, progression from initiation to daily smoking, progression from initiation to dependence, and persistence of smoking. Rasch model analyses of data from 1,508 middle-aged (34-44 years) adults showed that creating an additive index of lifetime alcohol involvement was psychometrically supported. Significant quadratic effects of alcohol involvement on initiation, progression, and persistence of smoking demonstrated that there were specific regions of the alcohol involvement continuum that were particularly strongly related to increased smoking. These results provide the most comprehensive depiction to date of the nature of the relationship between lifetime alcohol involvement and lifetime cigarette smoking and suggest potential avenues for research on the etiology and maintenance of smoking and tobacco dependence.

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Differential Influence of Parental Smoking and Friends' Smoking on Adolescent Initiation and Escalation and Smoking

Cited by 405 publications

References 38 publications

Does smoking among friends explain apparent genetic effects on current smoking in adolescence and young adulthood?

Does smoking among friends explain apparent genetic effects on current smoking in adolescence and young adulthood?

Exploring Alternate Processes Contributing to the Association Between Maternal Smoking and the Smoking Behavior Among Young Adult Offspring

Cigarette smoking and the lifetime alcohol involvement continuum

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