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Smoking Behavior among Adolescents: The Lebanese Experience with Cigarette Smoking and Waterpipe Use
(1) Background: The study aims to assess cigarette smoking and waterpipe experimentation among Lebanese adolescent school students with respect to their gender, region, age, and socioeconomic status. (2) Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, where students between 11 to 18 years of age were incl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9105385/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35565073 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095679 |
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author | Akel, Marwan Sakr, Fouad Fahs, Iqbal Dimassi, Ahmad Dabbous, Mariam Ehlinger, Virginie Salameh, Pascale Godeau, Emmanuelle |
author_facet | Akel, Marwan Sakr, Fouad Fahs, Iqbal Dimassi, Ahmad Dabbous, Mariam Ehlinger, Virginie Salameh, Pascale Godeau, Emmanuelle |
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description | (1) Background: The study aims to assess cigarette smoking and waterpipe experimentation among Lebanese adolescent school students with respect to their gender, region, age, and socioeconomic status. (2) Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, where students between 11 to 18 years of age were included from all over Lebanon. (3) Results: A total of 1133 students were interviewed. The total proportion of adolescents who ever experimented with cigarette smoking was 24.5%. Males experimented with cigarette smoking more commonly than females (31.9% vs. 19.1%; p < 0.001). Cigarette smoking experimentation was higher among students from the Beirut area (33.6%; p < 0.001) in comparison to other regions, and among those with poor health perception (29.1% vs. 19.8%; p < 0.001) compared to students with excellent health perception. The total proportion of adolescents who ever used a waterpipe was 33.9%. Waterpipes were significantly more experimented with among males than females (40.3% vs. 29.8%; p < 0.001), and among students with bad perception about their health (39.4% vs. 28.9%; p < 0.001). Adolescents who experimented with both cigarettes and waterpipes constitute 22.2% of the studied sample. (4) Conclusions: The rate of tobacco product use is alarming and constitutes a major public health issue for adolescents that urgently needs intervention. The findings raise important policy implications for the development of cigarette smoking prevention programs for youth. |
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spelling | pubmed-91053852022-05-14 Smoking Behavior among Adolescents: The Lebanese Experience with Cigarette Smoking and Waterpipe Use Akel, Marwan Sakr, Fouad Fahs, Iqbal Dimassi, Ahmad Dabbous, Mariam Ehlinger, Virginie Salameh, Pascale Godeau, Emmanuelle Int J Environ Res Public Health Article (1) Background: The study aims to assess cigarette smoking and waterpipe experimentation among Lebanese adolescent school students with respect to their gender, region, age, and socioeconomic status. (2) Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, where students between 11 to 18 years of age were included from all over Lebanon. (3) Results: A total of 1133 students were interviewed. The total proportion of adolescents who ever experimented with cigarette smoking was 24.5%. Males experimented with cigarette smoking more commonly than females (31.9% vs. 19.1%; p < 0.001). Cigarette smoking experimentation was higher among students from the Beirut area (33.6%; p < 0.001) in comparison to other regions, and among those with poor health perception (29.1% vs. 19.8%; p < 0.001) compared to students with excellent health perception. The total proportion of adolescents who ever used a waterpipe was 33.9%. Waterpipes were significantly more experimented with among males than females (40.3% vs. 29.8%; p < 0.001), and among students with bad perception about their health (39.4% vs. 28.9%; p < 0.001). Adolescents who experimented with both cigarettes and waterpipes constitute 22.2% of the studied sample. (4) Conclusions: The rate of tobacco product use is alarming and constitutes a major public health issue for adolescents that urgently needs intervention. The findings raise important policy implications for the development of cigarette smoking prevention programs for youth. MDPI 2022-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9105385/ /pubmed/35565073 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095679 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Akel, Marwan Sakr, Fouad Fahs, Iqbal Dimassi, Ahmad Dabbous, Mariam Ehlinger, Virginie Salameh, Pascale Godeau, Emmanuelle Smoking Behavior among Adolescents: The Lebanese Experience with Cigarette Smoking and Waterpipe Use |
title | Smoking Behavior among Adolescents: The Lebanese Experience with Cigarette Smoking and Waterpipe Use |
title_full | Smoking Behavior among Adolescents: The Lebanese Experience with Cigarette Smoking and Waterpipe Use |
title_fullStr | Smoking Behavior among Adolescents: The Lebanese Experience with Cigarette Smoking and Waterpipe Use |
title_full_unstemmed | Smoking Behavior among Adolescents: The Lebanese Experience with Cigarette Smoking and Waterpipe Use |
title_short | Smoking Behavior among Adolescents: The Lebanese Experience with Cigarette Smoking and Waterpipe Use |
title_sort | smoking behavior among adolescents: the lebanese experience with cigarette smoking and waterpipe use |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9105385/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35565073 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095679 |
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