Changes in smoking behaviours from late childhood to adolescence: 4 years later.
The purpose of this short report is to estimate trajectories documenting changes in the frequency of cigarette smoking between 10-11 and 20-21 years of age for 3959 participants to the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. This study is a follow up to Maggi, Hertzman, and Vaillancourt [Maggi, S., Hertzman, C., Vaillancourt, T., 2007. Changes in smoking behaviours from late childhood to adolescence: insights from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Health Psychol. 26, 232-240] who found that there are five distinct trajectories of acquisition of smoking from 10-11 to 16-17 years of age. While findings from this study replicate those reported in Maggi, Hertzman, and Vaillancourt [Maggi, S., Hertzman, C., Vaillancourt, T., 2007. Changes in smoking behaviours from late childhood to adolescence: insights from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Health Psychol. 26, 232-240], they provide a more accurate representation of the possible outcomes of the smoking acquisition process by indicating what specific trajectories of experimentation may lead to daily smoking, occasional smoking or non-smoking.
Department of Psychology and Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies/Child Studies, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, K1S 5B6, Canada. stefania_maggi@carleton.ca
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013997:Time Factors