Best friend's and family members’ smoking habits and parental divorce during childhood are associated with smoking in adulthood:

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

UllaBroms¹ 

关键词: smoking;    best friend;    divorce;    childhood adversities;    school year;    population- based;   

DOI  :  10.2478/v10199-012-0039-2

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

AimsSmoking initiation during childhood or adolescence is strongly associated with friends’ smoking. Likewise, adverse living conditions increase the likelihood of future deviant behaviour. We examine whether smoking by a best friend and family members during school years as well as adverse childhood experiences are associated with smoking in adulthood.Data and DesignWe have analysed the responses of Finnish working-aged respondents in 1998 (N=25901) and 2003 (N=20773) to questions on the smoking status of friends and family members during school years as well as their answers on a six-item scale of childhood adversities. A case-control study design was used to compare current cigarette smokers (1998 and 2003) to non-smokers (1998 and 2003).ResultsIf a best friend during school years was a smoker, the subject s odds ratio (OR) of being a smoker in adulthood was 4.43 among females and 3.91 among males compared to those with a non-smoking best friend in multivariate models adjusted for smoking by family mem...

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