Predictors of Arab American Adolescent Tobacco Use

From: Merrill - Palmer Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Et al; Hammad, Adnan; Templin, Thomas; Weglicki, Linda S; Rice, Virginia Hill | Copyright information

This study examined personal, psychosocial, sociocultural, and environmental predictors in tobacco use for 1,671 Arab American adolescents. Cigarette smoking in the past 30 days was 6.9%. This increased from 1% at age 14 to 14% at age 18. Twenty-nine percent of the youths reported having ever smoked cigarettes. Experimentation with narghile was 27%; it increased from 23% at 14 years to 40% at 18 years. All trends were significant (p < .001). Logistic regression analyses found 11 predictors...

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