The Development of Smoking during Adolescence—The MRC/Derbyshire Smoking Study

Murray, Michael; Swan, A V; Bewley, Beulah R.; Johnson, Michael

doi:10.1093/ije/12.2.185

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“…In the present study, these were significant determinants of smoking behaviour. Similar trends have been reported earlier in literature [2,[4][5][6].…”

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Determinants of Smoking Habit among Medical Students

Singh

Banerjee

et al. 2003

Medical Journal Armed Forces India

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A cross sectional study of smoking habits among medical students was carried out to find out the prevalence of smoking and its association with certain factors such as parental smoking, peer pressure, use of alcohol and other drugs. Prevalence of smoking was 46%. There was significant association of smoking with parental smoking habit, peer pressure, use of alcohol and other drugs. Strategies to counter these social determinants have been discussed.

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“…In the present study, these were significant determinants of smoking behaviour. Similar trends have been reported earlier in literature [2,[4][5][6].…”

Section: Methodssupporting

confidence: 91%

Determinants of Smoking Habit among Medical Students

Singh

Banerjee

et al. 2003

Medical Journal Armed Forces India

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“…Smoking is associated with many other factors, such as smoking among peers and siblings, alcohol intake, drugs, social problems, and personality, and several cohort studies show that having friends who smoke increases the risk that nonsmokers will start to smoke. [23][24][25] As we did not have any information on whether smoking or smoking peers came first, we did not adjust for these variables in the analyses. For the same reasons, we did not include factors such as alcohol consumption, 26 drug abuse, 27 personality, or psychosocial factors, 28 -31 although they are closely associated with smoking.…”

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Smoking Patterns Among Adolescents With Asthma Attending Upper Secondary Schools: A Community-Based Study

2003

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ABSTRACT. Objective. Smoking among people who have asthma may be a serious health problem. We studied the prevalence of smoking and the relations between smoking and asthma, symptoms, medicine, and gender differences among adolescents with asthma.Methods. A national cross-sectional study on health and lifestyles was performed in 1996 -1997 using a computerized questionnaire in upper secondary schools in Denmark. We included 1887 pupils with asthma (defined as self-reported asthma diagnosed by a physician) and 20 688 controls. Smoking was categorized as daily, occasional, ex-smokers, and never smoked. We adjusted for age, gender, parents' job and smoking, family type, body mass index, and exercise habits.Results. In total, 37.7% smoked currently and 16.5% smoked daily; more girls than boys smoked. More pupils with asthma than without smoked daily (adjusted odds ratio [OR]: 1.15; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.04 -1.33), they smoked significantly more cigarettes daily (10.3 vs 9.6), and more were heavy smokers (>15 cigarettes daily; adjusted OR: 1.47; 95% CI:1.14 -1.91). Furthermore, nearly twice as many pupils who had asthma with symptoms but were not using medicine smoked as pupils who had asthma without symptoms and were using medicine (adjusted OR: 1.84; 95% CI: 0.99 -3.41). More boys with asthma than without started smoking before 14 years of age (adjusted OR: 1.75; 95% CI: 1.09 -2.81). However, more pupils with asthma had tried to quit (adjusted OR: 1.26; 95% CI: 0.99 -1.60). Pupils with and without asthma were occasional smokers and ex-smokers at a similar prevalence.Conclusions. More pupils with asthma than without smoked daily, and they also smoked more cigarettes per day. This is a major health concern, as adolescents have a high smoking prevalence in Denmark. Pediatrics 2003;111:e562-e568. URL: http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/ content/full/111/5/e562; asthma, adolescents, smoking prevalence, smoking pattern.ABBREVIATIONS. OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval. S moking is a health risk, a pattern of behavior usually acquired during adolescence. In Western countries, 13% to 35% of adolescents smoke. 1 Although most of the effects of smoking are long term, smoking also has immediate effects on people with asthma. Smoking among people with asthma increases coughing and the inflammation of airways, 2 and smoking is associated with asthmatic symptoms. [3][4][5] Furthermore, physicians generally advise people with asthma not to smoke. Adolescents with asthma would therefore be expected to smoke less than adolescents without asthma. Nevertheless, the literature indicates that the smoking prevalence of adolescents with asthma is higher than 6 -8 or similar to 9,10 that of adolescents without asthma. Only 1 study found that adolescents with asthma smoke less than those without asthma. 11 More girls with asthma seem to smoke 8,12 and to smoke more cigarettes than girls without asthma, 12 and adolescents with asthma start smoking at a younger age than those without asthma. 7 However, these studies suffer from met...

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“…Indeed, many children try their first cigarette whilst at primary school (Murray et al, 1984., Swan et al, 1991. This trend in adolescent smoking is particularly important as the majority of adult smokers report initiating smoking before the age of twenty (Charlton, 1992).…”

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“…In Britain there have been five longitudinal studies that have identified elements of the child's social world that are predictive of smoking behaviour (Murray et al, 1984., McNeil et al, 1988., Charlton and Blair, 1989., Gillies and Galt, 1990., and Goddard, 1990). The main factor that predicts smoking is parental smoking, with research showing that children are twice as likely to smoke if their parents smoke (Bewley, 1978., Charlton, 1986., Lader and Matheson, 1991).…”

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