Predictors of Arab American Adolescent Tobacco Use

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...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 2006-04, Vol.52 (2), p.327-342
Hauptverfasser:	Rice, Virginia Hill, Weglicki, Linda S., Templin, Thomas, Hammad, Adnan, Jamil, Hikmet, Kulwicki, Anahid
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescents Age Differences Age groups Arab Americans Arabs Cigarette smoking Cigarettes Environmental Influences Family Influence Family members Health aspects Health risk assessment High School Students Peer Influence Predictor Variables Psychological Patterns Public health Questionnaires Rice, Linda Smoking Smoking and youth Smoking cessation Social Influences Sociocultural factors Surveys Teenagers Tobacco Tobacco use Trend Analysis
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Zusammenfassung:	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
ISSN:	0272-930X 1535-0266 1535-0266
DOI:	10.1353/mpq.2006.0020