title: [Consent to smoking in public places and at home the opinions of smokers and nonsmokers girls].
abstract: The aim of this study was researching of dependence between current status of smoking and opinions about smoking tobacco in public places and at home of girls at the age 18. We examined 2246 girls who graduated junior high schools and were continuing their education in four types of schools: high schools, profiled high schools, technical secondary schools and vocational schools. Two-stage sampling method was used, with the team stratification by type of school. The study was conducted in November and December 2008, the auditorium method. The results show that although more than half of the girls, do not agree with smoking in various public places and by parents at home, about one quarter of them accept smoking in cafes, restaurants, pubs and bus stops, and less than 1/5 have no opinion on the subject. Applied analysis using logistic regression analysis indicate a close relationship between smoking trials undertaken by the girls examined, and their opinion about the approval for smoking by students at the school. The model attempts to smoking was a significant predictor of acceptance of smoking in cafes and pubs, and the model of the current consensus on tobacco smoking at bus stops. The presented results indicate the need for prevention activities among children and adolescents, which will contribute to the education of attitudes and skills necessary to take measures aimed at creating environments free from tobacco smoke.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Biomedycznych i Psychologicznych Podstaw Edukacji Wydział Pedagogiczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski. a.kowalewska@uw.edu.pl
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kowalewska
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011639:Public Opinion; D017150:Public Sector; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012574:Schools; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D012931:Social Environment; D020458:Third-Party Consent / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*