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- Title
Cigarette smoking attitudes and first use among third--through sixth-grade students: The Bogalusa heart study.
- Authors
Greenlund, Kurt J.; Johnson, Carolyn C.; Webber, Larry S.; Berenson, Gerald S.
- Abstract
The article presents a study which examined cigarette smoking attitudes, peer and parental influence, and first use among children in southeastern Louisiana. The Bogalusa Heart Study is a long-term investigation of the development of cardiovascular disease beginning in childhood in a semirural, biracial community in southeastern Louisiana. Data were collected by trained staff, and parental consent was obtained for examination. Few differences in attitudes toward smoking by parental education or smoking status were observed at the .01 significance level. Maternal education was inversely associated with maternal smoking, smoking by friends, and whether a sister smoked. Paternal education was negatively associated with paternal and maternal smoking. Access to cigarettes was greater among those from families where either parent smoked compared with those where neither parent smoked. African American children had a lower likelihood of smoking than White children in multivariate analysis. Females had a slightly lower likelihood of smoking than males.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CIGARETTE smokers; SMOKING; HEALTH attitudes; PARENTAL influences; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; ETHNIC groups
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1997, Vol 87, Issue 8, p1345
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.87.8.1345