Predictors of susceptibility to smoking and ever smoking: A longitudinal study in a triethnic sample of adolescents

Gritz, Ellen R.; Prokhorov, Alexander V.; Hudmon, Karen Suchanek; Jones, Mary Mullin; Rosenblum, Carol; Chang, Chia Chen; Chamberlain, Robert M.; Taylor, Wendell C.; Johnston, Dennis A.; Moor, Carl de

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“…The results of this study were contrasted with results reported by Castrucci et al(2002), Unger et al (2001) Chen et al (2009 and Leatherdale et al (2010) who reported otherwise. These results, however, were consistent with the results of a study on Hispanic adolescents by Gritz et al (2003) and Jeganathan et al (2013) which reported the odd ratio of 1.93 (95%CI 1.29-2.89) and 3.08 (95%CI 2.32-4.09) for males. This phenomenon may be due to socio-cultural differences existing between respondents in this study and respondents in the studies by the aforementioned researchers, specifically smoking among females is not a norm in the Malaysian society.…”

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“…The influence of peers in this study is more pertinent when compared to family members who smoked, as having friends who smoked (even if it is just one person) would increase the risk of a person becoming more susceptible to smoking; the result is in line with Gritz et al (2003) (OR 4.32, 95%CI 2.25-8.29), Leatherdale et al, 2005(OR 1.26, (1.19, 1.34 ), Ertas, (2007 1.98 (1.71-2.28) who all reported that peer influence was one of the main predictor of susceptibility-to-smoking among adolescents, while at the same time it was found that the variable, of 'Fathers and Brothers who smoked', did not contribute to greater susceptibility-to-smoking in multivariate analysis. This finding contradicts the study by Wilkinson et al (2008), Ertas (2007), Chan and Leatherdale (2011) and Huang et al (2012) that says respondents with a brother or parent who smoke were more likely to be susceptible to smoking (OR 2.65; 95%CI 1.48-4.76; 1.17; 95%CI 1.04-1.31; 1.35; 95%CI 1.16-1.58); this could be due to the older age of respondents in the current study compared to the other studies which show that parents' influence would gradually decline as their children grew older because parental control naturally slips with the increasing age of their offspring (Baumrind, 1991).…”

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Correlates of Susceptibility to Smoking among Secondary School Students in Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia

Hock

Ghazali²,

Kee³

et al. 2013

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Background: Smoking among adolescents has been linked to a variety of adverse and long term health consequences. "Susceptibility to smoking" or the lack of cognitive commitment to abstain from smoking is an important predictor of adolescent smoking. In 2008, we conducted a study to determine the psycho-sociological factors associated with susceptibility to smoking among secondary school students in the district of Kota Tinggi, Johor. Materials and Methods: Two thousand seven hundred students were randomly selected by proportional stratified sampling. Analyses on 1,736 non-smoking students revealed that prevalence of adolescents susceptible to smoking was 16.3%. Results: Male gender (aOR=2.05, 95%CI= 1.23-3.39), poor academic achievement (aOR 1.60, 95%CI 1.05-2.44), ever-smoker (aOR 2.17, 95%CI 1.37-3.44) and having a smoking friend (aOR 1.76, 95%CI 1.10-2.83) were associated with susceptibility to smoking, while having the perception that smoking prohibition in school was strictly enforced (aOR 0.55, 95%CI 0.32-0.94), and had never seen friends smoking in a school compound (aOR 0.59, 95%CI 0.37-0.96) were considered protective factors Conclusions: These results indicate that follow-up programmes need to capitalise on the modifiable factors related to susceptibility to smoking by getting all stakeholders to be actively involved to stamp out smoking initiation among adolescents.

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Correlates of Susceptibility to Smoking among Secondary School Students in Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia

Hock

Ghazali²,

Kee³

et al. 2013

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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“…Tobacco use is highly associated with lung cancer and more than half of this malignant disease is said to be caused by tobacco smoking (Kaplan et al, 2001). Although tobacco use is one of the biggest threats to public health (Gritz et al, 2003), lack of case control and cohort studies in Asia and the complex relationship between cancer and tobacco use makes it difficult to derive conclusions (Kaplan et al, 2001).…”

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Smoking Stage Relations to Peer, School and Parental Factors among Secondary School Students in Kinta, Perak

Jeganathan

Hairi²,

Sadat³

et al. 2013

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Background: To identify the prevalence of different stages of smoking and differences in associated risk factors. Materials and Methods: Thos longitudinal study started in February 2011 and the subjects were 2552 form one students aged between twelve to thirteen years of from 15 government secondary schools of Kinta, Perak. Data on demographic, parental, school and peer factors were collected using a self-administered questionnaire. We examined the effects of peer, school and parental factors on the five stages of smoking; never smokers, susceptible never smokers, experimenters, current smokers and ex-smokers, at baseline. Results: In the sample, 19.3% were susceptible never smokers, 5.5% were current smokers 6% were experimenters and 3.1% were ex-smokers. Gender, ethnicity, best friends' smoking status, high peer pressure, higher number of relatives who smoked and parental monitoring were found to be associated with smoking stages. Presence of parent-teen conflict was only associated with susceptible never smokers and experimenters whereas absence of home discussion on smoking hazards was associated with susceptible never smokers and current smokers. Conclusions: We identified variations in the factors associated with the different stages of smoking. Our results highlight that anti-smoking strategies should be tailored according to the different smoking stages.

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“…Research has demonstrated that having family or peers that smoke will increase the likelihood of ever smoking [62,63]. Furthermore, epidemiological studies suggest that adolescents are more vulnerable to nicotine addiction: 88% of smokers tried their first cigarette before age 18, and the development of daily cigarette smoking typically occurs before age 25 [10,41].…”

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Genetic variability in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and nicotine addiction: Converging evidence from human and animal research

Portugal

Gould

2008

Behavioural Brain Research

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Tobacco smoking is a leading preventable cause of death in the United States and produces a major health and economic burden. Although the majority of smokers want to quit, few are successful. These data highlight the need for additional research into the neurobiology of tobacco dependence. Addiction to nicotine, the main psychoactive component of tobacco, is influenced by multiple factors that include individual differences in genetic makeup. Twin studies have demonstrated that genetic factors can influence vulnerability to nicotine addiction, and subsequent research has identified genes that may alter sensitivity to nicotine. In humans, genome-wide and candidate gene association studies have demonstrated that genes encoding nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) proteins are associated with multiple smoking phenotypes. Similarly, research in mice has provided evidence that naturally occurring variability in nAChR genes is associated with changes in nicotine sensitivity. Furthermore, the use of genetic knockout mice has allowed researchers to determine the nAChR genes that mediate the effects of nicotine, whereas research with knockin mice has demonstrated that changes to nAChR genes can dramatically alter nicotine sensitivity. This review will examine the genetic factors that alter susceptibility to nicotine addiction, with an emphasis on the genes that encode nAChR proteins.

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Predictors of susceptibility to smoking and ever smoking: A longitudinal study in a triethnic sample of adolescents

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Correlates of Susceptibility to Smoking among Secondary School Students in Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia

Correlates of Susceptibility to Smoking among Secondary School Students in Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia

Smoking Stage Relations to Peer, School and Parental Factors among Secondary School Students in Kinta, Perak

Genetic variability in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and nicotine addiction: Converging evidence from human and animal research

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