title: Risk factors of future smoking among Thai youth: a secondary analysis of the Thai Global Youth Tobacco Survey.
abstract: The study aimed to identify the risk factors for future smoking among Thai youth aged 13 to 15 years (seventh to ninth grade). Data from the nationally representative 2005 Thai Global Youth Tobacco Survey (n = 15 774) were analyzed using descriptive statistics and logistic regression. Among nonsmoking Thai youth, boys were much more likely to have intention of future smoking (odds ratio [OR] = 0.56, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.37-0.84). Younger youth were more likely to be cigarette smokers in the future (OR = 0.70, 95% CI = 0.56-0.88). Youth having the intention of smoking from a friend's cigarette offer were 5.29 times more likely to have intention of future smoking, compared with those who did not (95% CI = 3.75-7.46). Understanding and targeting youth at higher risk for future smoking can provide for a lowering of the youth smoking rate in Thailand and contribute to the country's continued efforts in effective youth tobacco control.
authors.affiliation: Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Gyeongsil
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Joann
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA sungkyu.lee@ucsf.edu.
authors.forename: Sungkyu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D016017:Odds Ratio; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013785:Thailand / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: Global Youth Tobacco Survey; Thailand; adolescents; smoking; tobacco