title: Smoking among upper secondary pupils with asthma: reasons for their smoking behavior: a population-based study.
abstract: We compared why adolescent pupils with and without asthma started smoking and currently smoke. Girls with asthma started smoking less often because of friends smoking, and asthmatics started more often because of pressure, especially asthmatic boys. Fewer asthmatics smoked currently for social reasons and more to stay slim, mainly asthmatic boys.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark. dh06@bbh.hosp.dk
authors.forename: Dorthe Hansen
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Precht
authors.forename: Lis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Keiding
authors.forename: Gert Allan
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Nielsen
authors.forename: Mette
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Madsen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010379:Peer Group; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology*; D012919:Social Behavior