Race differences in factors relating to smoking initiation

Factors relating to failure to quit smoking: a prospective cohort study.

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Considering the difficulties in stopping smoking, this article aimed to identify factors relating to failure of attempts to quit smoking among smokers who sought care at an outpatient clinic in a general university hospital. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective cohort study evaluating 100 smokers who sought treatment at the Psychoactive Substances Outpatient Clinic. METHODS ...

Promotion in Smoking Initiation

Causation can never be proven beyond question. The strongest evidence for causality comes from controlled experiments in which individuals are randomly assigned either to a group that will receive exposure to the causal agent—in this case, cigarette advertising—or to one or more control groups that are not exposed to the causal agent, but are identical to the exposure group in every other way. ...

Race Differences in Intelligence

Factors Associated with Early Smoking Initiation among Korean Adolescents.

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with early initiation of cigarette smoking among Korean adolescents. METHODS A secondary analysis was conducted on the 2012 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey data using Cox proportional hazards regression. RESULTS Early smoking initiation was associated with being male, having a positive subjective health status, perc...

Factors Associated with Smoking Cessation and Risk of Smoking Initiation in Bulgarian Youth

The goal of this project was to explore the factors associated with smoking behavior among Bulgarian adolescents. A sample recruited from 12 high schools in Bulgaria (N = 673, mean age = 16.52, 65% female), was used for the analyses in this paper. A series of logistic regressions were performed to explore the factors associated with smoking cessation and increased risk of smoking initiation. Ba...