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Secondhand smoke exposure at home among middle and high school students in the United States – does the type of tobacco product matter?

BACKGROUND: A decline in the prevalence of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure has been observed in the United States of America (USA) during the past few decades. Nevertheless, nearly half of non-smoking students are still exposed to SHS. This paper aims to describe the factors associated with SHS expo...

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Autores principales: Fischer, Florian, Kraemer, Alexander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5248465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28103827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4019-z
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description BACKGROUND: A decline in the prevalence of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure has been observed in the United States of America (USA) during the past few decades. Nevertheless, nearly half of non-smoking students are still exposed to SHS. This paper aims to describe the factors associated with SHS exposure stratified by type of exposure (overall, cigarettes and electronic cigarettes). METHODS: The analysis is based on secondary data taken from the National Youth Tobacco Survey 2014. Overall, 22,007 middle and high school students from the USA are included in the sample. Descriptive and bivariate statistics as well as binary logistic regression models were performed. RESULTS: Overall, 44.5% (n=9,798) of the study participants declared themselves to be exposed to SHS, 29.1% (n=6,394) declared to be exposed to SHS caused by cigarette smoke and 9.4% (n=2,067) claimed that a person who lives with them uses electronic cigarettes. There is a considerable overlap between the two types of SHS exposure, because 74.9% (n=1,548) of students declaring that a person within their household uses electronic cigarettes also declare a person in the household smoking cigarettes. The strengths of association between independent variables and SHS exposure differs by type of exposure and also by smoking status of respondents. CONCLUSIONS: Although only small differences are obvious in the factors associated with SHS exposure stratified by the type of tobacco product, there are still some variations which should be considered in policy making to allow for a targeted approach in prevention campaigns or legislation.
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spelling pubmed-52484652017-01-25 Secondhand smoke exposure at home among middle and high school students in the United States – does the type of tobacco product matter? Fischer, Florian Kraemer, Alexander BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: A decline in the prevalence of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure has been observed in the United States of America (USA) during the past few decades. Nevertheless, nearly half of non-smoking students are still exposed to SHS. This paper aims to describe the factors associated with SHS exposure stratified by type of exposure (overall, cigarettes and electronic cigarettes). METHODS: The analysis is based on secondary data taken from the National Youth Tobacco Survey 2014. Overall, 22,007 middle and high school students from the USA are included in the sample. Descriptive and bivariate statistics as well as binary logistic regression models were performed. RESULTS: Overall, 44.5% (n=9,798) of the study participants declared themselves to be exposed to SHS, 29.1% (n=6,394) declared to be exposed to SHS caused by cigarette smoke and 9.4% (n=2,067) claimed that a person who lives with them uses electronic cigarettes. There is a considerable overlap between the two types of SHS exposure, because 74.9% (n=1,548) of students declaring that a person within their household uses electronic cigarettes also declare a person in the household smoking cigarettes. The strengths of association between independent variables and SHS exposure differs by type of exposure and also by smoking status of respondents. CONCLUSIONS: Although only small differences are obvious in the factors associated with SHS exposure stratified by the type of tobacco product, there are still some variations which should be considered in policy making to allow for a targeted approach in prevention campaigns or legislation. BioMed Central 2017-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5248465/ /pubmed/28103827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4019-z Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full Secondhand smoke exposure at home among middle and high school students in the United States – does the type of tobacco product matter?
title_fullStr Secondhand smoke exposure at home among middle and high school students in the United States – does the type of tobacco product matter?
title_full_unstemmed Secondhand smoke exposure at home among middle and high school students in the United States – does the type of tobacco product matter?
title_short Secondhand smoke exposure at home among middle and high school students in the United States – does the type of tobacco product matter?
title_sort secondhand smoke exposure at home among middle and high school students in the united states – does the type of tobacco product matter?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5248465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28103827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4019-z
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