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Smoking trends among adolescents from 1990 to 2002 in ten European countries and Canada

BACKGROUND: Daily smoking adolescents are a public health problem as they are more likely to become adult smokers and to develop smoking-related health problems later on in their lives. METHODS: The study is part of the four-yearly, cross-national Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study, a sc...

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Autores principales: Hublet, Anne, De Bacquer, Dirk, Valimaa, Raili, Godeau, Emmanuelle, Schmid, Holger, Rahav, Giora, Maes, Lea
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1654156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17096837
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-280
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author Hublet, Anne
De Bacquer, Dirk
Valimaa, Raili
Godeau, Emmanuelle
Schmid, Holger
Rahav, Giora
Maes, Lea
author_facet Hublet, Anne
De Bacquer, Dirk
Valimaa, Raili
Godeau, Emmanuelle
Schmid, Holger
Rahav, Giora
Maes, Lea
author_sort Hublet, Anne
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description BACKGROUND: Daily smoking adolescents are a public health problem as they are more likely to become adult smokers and to develop smoking-related health problems later on in their lives. METHODS: The study is part of the four-yearly, cross-national Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study, a school-based survey on a nationally representative sample using a standardised methodology. Data of 4 survey periods are available (1990–2002). Gender-specific daily smoking trends among 14–15 year olds are examined using logistic regressions. Sex ratios are calculated for each survey period and country. Interaction effects between period and gender are examined. RESULTS: Daily smoking prevalence in boys in 2002 ranges from 5.5% in Sweden to 20.0% in Latvia. Among girls, the daily smoking prevalence in 2002 ranges from 8.9% in Poland to 24.7% in Austria. Three daily smoking trend groups are identified: countries with a declining or stagnating trend, countries with an increasing trend followed by a decreasing trend, and countries with an increasing trend. These trend groups show a geographical pattern, but are not linked to smoking prevalence. Over the 4 surveys, the sex ratio has changed in Belgium, Switzerland, and Latvia. CONCLUSION: Among adolescents in Europe, three groups of countries in a different stage of the smoking epidemic curve can be identified, with girls being in an earlier stage than boys. In 2002, large differences in smoking prevalence between the countries have been observed. This predicts a high mortality due to smoking over 20–30 years for some countries, if no policy interventions are taken.
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spelling pubmed-16541562006-11-21 Smoking trends among adolescents from 1990 to 2002 in ten European countries and Canada Hublet, Anne De Bacquer, Dirk Valimaa, Raili Godeau, Emmanuelle Schmid, Holger Rahav, Giora Maes, Lea BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Daily smoking adolescents are a public health problem as they are more likely to become adult smokers and to develop smoking-related health problems later on in their lives. METHODS: The study is part of the four-yearly, cross-national Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study, a school-based survey on a nationally representative sample using a standardised methodology. Data of 4 survey periods are available (1990–2002). Gender-specific daily smoking trends among 14–15 year olds are examined using logistic regressions. Sex ratios are calculated for each survey period and country. Interaction effects between period and gender are examined. RESULTS: Daily smoking prevalence in boys in 2002 ranges from 5.5% in Sweden to 20.0% in Latvia. Among girls, the daily smoking prevalence in 2002 ranges from 8.9% in Poland to 24.7% in Austria. Three daily smoking trend groups are identified: countries with a declining or stagnating trend, countries with an increasing trend followed by a decreasing trend, and countries with an increasing trend. These trend groups show a geographical pattern, but are not linked to smoking prevalence. Over the 4 surveys, the sex ratio has changed in Belgium, Switzerland, and Latvia. CONCLUSION: Among adolescents in Europe, three groups of countries in a different stage of the smoking epidemic curve can be identified, with girls being in an earlier stage than boys. In 2002, large differences in smoking prevalence between the countries have been observed. This predicts a high mortality due to smoking over 20–30 years for some countries, if no policy interventions are taken. BioMed Central 2006-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC1654156/ /pubmed/17096837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-280 Text en Copyright © 2006 Hublet et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Hublet, Anne
De Bacquer, Dirk
Valimaa, Raili
Godeau, Emmanuelle
Schmid, Holger
Rahav, Giora
Maes, Lea
Smoking trends among adolescents from 1990 to 2002 in ten European countries and Canada
title Smoking trends among adolescents from 1990 to 2002 in ten European countries and Canada
title_full Smoking trends among adolescents from 1990 to 2002 in ten European countries and Canada
title_fullStr Smoking trends among adolescents from 1990 to 2002 in ten European countries and Canada
title_full_unstemmed Smoking trends among adolescents from 1990 to 2002 in ten European countries and Canada
title_short Smoking trends among adolescents from 1990 to 2002 in ten European countries and Canada
title_sort smoking trends among adolescents from 1990 to 2002 in ten european countries and canada
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1654156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17096837
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-280
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