Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10444013 | Addictive Behaviors | 2005 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
This study sought to assess the relationship between level of cigarette smoking and social factors indicating permissiveness of smoking among youth. This was a school-based cross-sectional questionnaire study carried out in a random sample of students (n=13,293, 11-24 years) at public schools in Morelos, Mexico. Chi2 test and multiple logistic regression analysis were used to evaluate correlates of level of smoking (> or â¤5 cigarettes/day). There is a rising trend in smoking among Mexican in-school youth, a tendency towards smoking initiation at increasingly younger ages and a decrease in the gender gap regarding smoking. When young people smoked at home, at school and outside, they were over fives times as likely to smoke >5 cigarettes/day. Prevention of smoking among Mexican adolescents should emphasize smoke-free schools, no smoking policies in the community and parental antitobacco education.
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Authors
Lucia Maria Lotrean, Luisa Maria Sánchez-Zamorano, Raydel Valdés-Salgado, Edna Arillo-Santillán, Betania Allen, Mauricio Hernández-Avila, Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce,