Social Norms and Smoking Risk in Fijian Adolescent Women

Overview

Journal Health Behav Policy Rev

Date 2019 Jun 4

PMID 31157285

Authors

Margaret E Gerbasi

Stephen E Gilman

Asaf Bitton

Anne E Becker

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Abstract

Objective: To investigate the association of a variety of social smoking exposures with cigarette smoking among adolescent women in Fiji.

Methods: Self-report data were collected in a representative sample of school-going adolescent women (=523). We fitted logistic regression models of current cigarette smoking with school, peer, media, and other social exposures to smoking as predictors.

Results: Current cigarette smoking was associated with exposure to close friend, peer, and routine social smoking as well as higher prevalence of school peer smoking, but not parent tobacco use and media smoking exposures-in our fully adjusted model.

Conclusions: Peer and school-based smoking exposures may increase cigarette smoking risk in school-going adolescent women and may be strategic interventional targets to augment existing preventive approaches.

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