The relationship between depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking in US adolescents.
OBJECTIVE
Data from the Teenage Attitudes and Practices Survey were analyzed to assess the relationship between depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking. DESIGNS, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS: Nationally representative sample of adolescents interviewed in 1989 and again in 1993.


METHODS
Prevalence rate and adjusted odds ratio for smoking at follow-up by depressive symptoms status at baseline.


RESULTS
Adolescents with depressive symptoms were more likely than other adolescents to start smoking.


CONCLUSIONS
The associations between depressive symptoms and regular smoking appears to be established by adolescence.
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012907:Smoking; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology