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Susceptibility to cigarette smoking and associated factors among high school students in western Ethiopia

OBJECTIVE: Tobacco smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable premature death worldwide. Adolescence is a common period at which most of the established smokers start experimenting and smoking. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of susceptibility to cigarette smoking and a...

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Autores principales: Bobo, Firew Tekle, Thanasekaran, Palanichamy, Joice, Agin Jiju Rajamony, Yadecha, Birhanu, Alebel, Animut
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6117939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30165886
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3734-6
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author Bobo, Firew Tekle
Thanasekaran, Palanichamy
Joice, Agin Jiju Rajamony
Yadecha, Birhanu
Alebel, Animut
author_facet Bobo, Firew Tekle
Thanasekaran, Palanichamy
Joice, Agin Jiju Rajamony
Yadecha, Birhanu
Alebel, Animut
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description OBJECTIVE: Tobacco smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable premature death worldwide. Adolescence is a common period at which most of the established smokers start experimenting and smoking. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of susceptibility to cigarette smoking and associated factors among high school students in western Ethiopia. RESULT: The prevalence of susceptibility to cigarette smoking among the study participants was 16.9%. Two-third (65.9%, 95% CI; 62.77, 68.87) of the students reported that they are exposed to second hand smoking in public areas. Students, whose father smoked (OR 2.76, 95% CI [1.26, 6.09]), whose friends smoked (OR 3.73 95% CI [1.57, 8.90]). Adolescents who have the perception that boys who smoke are attractive (OR 2.26, 95% CI [1.24, 4.09]) and smoking cigarettes makes young people look cool (OR 1.47, 95% CI; [1.01, 2.17]) were more likely to be susceptible to smoking. Having the knowledge that tobacco smoking is harmful (OR .43, CI 95% [.28, .67]) to health was found to be a protective factor against susceptibility to smoking cigarette.
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spelling pubmed-61179392018-09-05 Susceptibility to cigarette smoking and associated factors among high school students in western Ethiopia Bobo, Firew Tekle Thanasekaran, Palanichamy Joice, Agin Jiju Rajamony Yadecha, Birhanu Alebel, Animut BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Tobacco smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable premature death worldwide. Adolescence is a common period at which most of the established smokers start experimenting and smoking. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of susceptibility to cigarette smoking and associated factors among high school students in western Ethiopia. RESULT: The prevalence of susceptibility to cigarette smoking among the study participants was 16.9%. Two-third (65.9%, 95% CI; 62.77, 68.87) of the students reported that they are exposed to second hand smoking in public areas. Students, whose father smoked (OR 2.76, 95% CI [1.26, 6.09]), whose friends smoked (OR 3.73 95% CI [1.57, 8.90]). Adolescents who have the perception that boys who smoke are attractive (OR 2.26, 95% CI [1.24, 4.09]) and smoking cigarettes makes young people look cool (OR 1.47, 95% CI; [1.01, 2.17]) were more likely to be susceptible to smoking. Having the knowledge that tobacco smoking is harmful (OR .43, CI 95% [.28, .67]) to health was found to be a protective factor against susceptibility to smoking cigarette. BioMed Central 2018-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6117939/ /pubmed/30165886 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3734-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 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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Thanasekaran, Palanichamy
Joice, Agin Jiju Rajamony
Yadecha, Birhanu
Alebel, Animut
Susceptibility to cigarette smoking and associated factors among high school students in western Ethiopia
title Susceptibility to cigarette smoking and associated factors among high school students in western Ethiopia
title_full Susceptibility to cigarette smoking and associated factors among high school students in western Ethiopia
title_fullStr Susceptibility to cigarette smoking and associated factors among high school students in western Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Susceptibility to cigarette smoking and associated factors among high school students in western Ethiopia
title_short Susceptibility to cigarette smoking and associated factors among high school students in western Ethiopia
title_sort susceptibility to cigarette smoking and associated factors among high school students in western ethiopia
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6117939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30165886
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3734-6
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