Teens in trouble: cigarette use and risky behaviors among private, high school students in La Paz, Bolivia Adolescentes en problemas: consumo de cigarrillos y conductas de riesgo en estudiantes de escuelas privadas de enseñanza media superior de La Paz, Bolivia

• Main Authors: Kirk A. Dearden, Benjamin T. Crookston, Natalie G. De La Cruz, Gordon B. Lindsay, Ali Bowden, Liz Carlston, Paul Gardner
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2007
• Subjects: Adolescente; conducta del adolescente; tabaquismo; asunción de riesgos; Bolivia; Adolescent; adolescent behavior; smoking; risk-taking; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Azar
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/a120259c1c65449ba8a3994c755ed634

OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of cigarette smoking and to identify risky behaviors associated with smoking among adolescents attending high schools in a district of La Paz, Bolivia. METHODS: The Youth Risk Behavior Survey was administered to a sample of 394 males and 182 females, from 13-18...