Youth tobacco use in Latin America: What is the real extent of the problem?
Allergol. immunopatol
; 47(4): 328-335, jul.-ago. 2019. tab, graf
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ABSTRACT
Introduction:
Cigarette consumption among teenagers is one of the most critical health-related risk behaviors.Method:
Prospective study carried out in seven sites of five Latin American countries (Argentina [Cordoba, N = 958, Corrientes, N = 1013], Brazil [Curitiba, N = 650; Uruguaiana, N = 997], Cuba [Havana, N = 1004], Mexico [Veracruz, N = 991] and Paraguay [Ciudad del Este, N = 868]) with public-school adolescents (aged 12-19 years). Respondents were asked to answer the California Student Tobacco Survey.Results:
6550 adolescents took part in the survey (average age 14 years). 38.5% (N = 2517) "tried smoking" and 37.5% started smoking before the age of 12. Sixty-one percent of adolescents think that cigarettes are easily accessible; 41.7% considered that smokers have more friends; 88% indicated knowledge of the harms of smoking one to five cigarettes per day; 58.9% would smoke new cigarette types with less harmful substances; 27.8% have already used e-cigarettes; 28% have smoked hookah. Fifty-seven point five percent have been, in the past seven days, in the same room with someone who was smoking a cigarette; and 30.5% indicated that there were not any no-smoking rules inside their homes. Identifiable risk factors were (logistic regression analysis) smoking cigarettes offered by friends, smoking cigarettes with less harmful substances, knowing what a hookah is, being in the same room with a smoker in the past week. Identifiable protective factors against tobacco use were knowing the health risks caused by smoking hookah and to have their own room.Conclusion:
Youth tobacco use in Latin America is a major public health concern, and tobacco control measures are highly neededRESUMEN
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Collection:
National databases
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Spain
Database:
IBECS
Main subject:
Students
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Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems
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Tobacco Smoking
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Allergol. immunopatol
Year:
2019
Document type:
Article
Institution/Affiliation country:
Clinic for Allergy and Asthma/Paraguay
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Clinica del Pilares/Argentina
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Federal University of Pampa/Brazil
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Federal University of Paraná/Brazil
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Federal University of São Paulo/Brazil
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Hospital ISSSTE/Mexico
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INMUNE Clinic - CDE/Paraguay
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Medical student - Federal University of Pampa/Brazil
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Policlinic for Teaching "Pedro Fonseca Alvarez"/Cuba
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Universidad UCES-San Francisco/Argentina