Parental prompts as risk factors for adolescent trial smoking: Results of a prospective cohort study

Article Abstract:

The relationship between several risk factors, including parental prompting, parental smoking, familism, and adolescent socio-demographic factors with trial use of cigarettes is investigated in a sample of 478 adolescents that include a large number of Latinos. Results suggest that parental prompts to smoke were not significantly related to smoking initiation among adolescents over a one-year period.

Risk factors, Influence, Parent and child, Parent-child relations

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Accuracy of parental and youth reporting of secondhand smoke exposure: The Florida youth cohort study

Article Abstract:

The accuracy of secondhand smoke exposure as reported by youth and their parents, using salivary continine levels to determine objective verification of exposure is evaluated. The accuracy of individual youth and parental reports of adolescent exposure to secondhand smoke is poor and would lead to misclassification, particularly among adolescents 13-15 years of age.

Health aspects, Social aspects, Reports, Florida, Passive smoking

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Adolescent smoking and depression: Which comes first?

Article Abstract:

A study that was carried out to evaluate the direction of the relation between cigarette smoking and depression among adolescents by using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health is described. It is seen that females showed a striking pattern of increase in depression during the onset of smoking and decreases at the time of quitting.

Psychological aspects, Analysis, Depression in adolescence, Adolescent depression

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