Family Background to and Personal Characteristics Underlying Teenage Smoking
Smoking habits at the age of 14 were studied in a series of about 11000 children in Northern Finland. This cohort study was started before the birth of the child as a family inquiry. 6.4% of the children smoked every day and 59.5% were non-smokers. Of the family background variables, parents' s...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/140349488301100104 2023-05-15T17:42:27+02:00 Family Background to and Personal Characteristics Underlying Teenage Smoking Background to Teenage Smoking Rantakallio, Paula 1983 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/140349488301100104 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/140349488301100104 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine volume 11, issue 1, page 17-22 ISSN 0300-8037 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health journal-article 1983 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/140349488301100104 2022-04-14T04:45:21Z Smoking habits at the age of 14 were studied in a series of about 11000 children in Northern Finland. This cohort study was started before the birth of the child as a family inquiry. 6.4% of the children smoked every day and 59.5% were non-smokers. Of the family background variables, parents' smoking, a one-parent family, and number of children in the family had the strongest association with juvenile smoking. Family background variables explained only 6.5% of the total variance in smoking among the girls and 3.5% among the boys, but when characteristics of the children themselves were also introduced into the analyses, 55.7% and 42.7% of the variance respectively could be explained. Juvenile smoking had the strongest association with drinking and excessive drinking of alcohol, poor school performance, less frequent participation in sports and greater body height. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine 11 1 17 22 |
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Smoking habits at the age of 14 were studied in a series of about 11000 children in Northern Finland. This cohort study was started before the birth of the child as a family inquiry. 6.4% of the children smoked every day and 59.5% were non-smokers. Of the family background variables, parents' smoking, a one-parent family, and number of children in the family had the strongest association with juvenile smoking. Family background variables explained only 6.5% of the total variance in smoking among the girls and 3.5% among the boys, but when characteristics of the children themselves were also introduced into the analyses, 55.7% and 42.7% of the variance respectively could be explained. Juvenile smoking had the strongest association with drinking and excessive drinking of alcohol, poor school performance, less frequent participation in sports and greater body height. |
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