Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children: adolescent never smoking and associations with individual, social, and environmental factors.

ABSTRACT: Fuelled by the tobacco industry, commercial tobacco use is a major cause of preventable morbidity and mortality among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Preventing adolescent smoking initiation is critical to reducing uptake. Understanding individual, social, and environmental factors that are protective against smoking can inform prevention strategies. We analysed data from adolescents 12-15 years and their caregivers from Wave 11 (2018) of the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC). Poisson regression was used to calculate adjusted prevalence ratios (PR) of never smoking in relation to individual, social, and environmental factors adjusted for age and remoteness. Never smoking was reported by 81.3% of adolescents. Half (51.3%) of those who had ever-smoked had smoked

SUBMITTER: de Waard A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12008743 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature