title: Predictors of Arab American Adolescent Tobacco Use.
abstract: This study examined personal, psychosocial, sociocultural, and environmental predictors in tobacco use for 1671 Arab American adolescents. Cigarette smoking in past 30 days was 6.9%. This increased from 1% at age 14 to 14% at age 18. Twenty-nine percent of the youths reported 'ever cigarette smoking.' Experimentation with narghile was 27%; it increased from 23% at 14 years to 40% at 18 years. All trends were significant (p < .001). Logistic regression analyses found ten predictors for 'smoked a cigarette in past 30 days' and nine and seven, respectively, for 'ever smoked a cigarette or narghile'. Friends and family members smoking were the strongest predictors of cigarette smoking and 'ever narghile use.' 'Ever narghile use' supported cigarette smoking.
authors.affiliation: Wayne State University College of Nursing.
authors.forename: Virginia Hill
authors.initials: VH
authors.lastname: Rice
authors.forename: Linda S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Weglicki
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Templin
authors.forename: Adnan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hammad
authors.forename: Hikmet
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jamil
authors.forename: Anahid
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kulwicki