title: Smoking behavior in nine year old children: a replication and extension study.
abstract: This study replicates and extends the results of our earlier findings which showed that 35% of children at age 9 had experimented with cigarettes for various reasons. Seven hundred eighty-seven children from the earlier sample and 361 children from the current sample participated in this study. Forty-one percent of the current sample had puffed a cigarette, 18% had tried it in the last year, 6% in the last 4 weeks and 3.5% in the last week. The study also showed that children who had puffed a cigarette had a significantly positive attitude towards smoking when compared with children who had not experimented with cigarettes. The puffers believed smoking is good, wise and fun.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia.
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Oei
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fae
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Silva
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D009520:New Zealand / Q000453:epidemiology; D010556:Personality Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*