Although previous investigations have indicated a role for genetic factors in smoking initiation, the underlying genetic mechanisms are still unknown. In 2,339 adolescents from a Chinese Han population in the Wuhan Smoking Prevention Trial (Wuhan, China, 1998-1999), the authors explored the association of 57 genes in the dopamine pathway with smoking initiation. Using a conservative approach fo...

OBJECTIVE To define US national sex specific rates of smoking initiation among Hispanic, non-Hispanic white, and African American adolescents aged 12-17 years for each calendar year from 1940 through 1992. METHODS Adult survey data from the tobacco use supplement of the Current Population Survey in 1992-93 and 1995-96 were used to reconstruct the age at which individuals began to smoke and th...

OBJECTIVE Although the association between smoking and schizophrenia is well known, little attention has been paid to the time between initiation of smoking and onset of schizophrenia. Our goal was to study this putative temporal relation among patients with schizophrenia. METHODS We used data from the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort (n = 11,017) linked with the National Finnish Hospital D...

BACKGROUND Smoking among adolescents remains unacceptably high and the difference in potential risk factors for smoking initiation between male and female adolescents has been explored. Although the association between smoking initiation and dieting behaviour has been observed among girls, the mechanism of the association is unknown. OBJECTIVE To examine prospectively the association between ...

BACKGROUND The rate of smoking and lung cancer among women is rising in Europe. The primary aim of this study was to determine why women begin smoking in five different European countries at different stages of the tobacco epidemic and to determine if smoking is associated with certain characteristics and/or beliefs about smoking. METHODS A cross-sectional telephone survey on knowledge and be...

Understanding mechanisms underlying smoking-related factors should be prioritized in establishing smoking prevention and cessation policy. The aim of this study was to identify factors significantly associated with smoking initiation and/or smoking cessation as well as the most important determinants of successful smoking cessation in a developed non-Western setting. Based on multiple logistic ...

Menthol cigarettes have been found to be more addictive and a higher difficulty of smoking cessation among smokers (1). The impact of menthol cigarette smoking, including nicotine dependence is worrying the public (2-4) and the younger generation (5) globally. Menthol cigarettes are associated with increasing trend of smoking initiation among young non-smoking women (6) and young male adults (7...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate effects of a home-based antismoking socialization program on the initiation of smoking among children whose parents smoke. DESIGN Three-year randomized controlled trial. PARTICIPANTS Parents who were current smokers and had a child in the third grade who had not tried smoking were eligible; 873 parents-offspring pairs met these criteria, completed baseline interviews, ...