Youth tobacco access: trends and policy implications.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We examined whether the supply routes via which New Zealand adolescents aged 14-15 years accessed tobacco had changed during a period of dynamic policy activity.

Setting

We analysed data from seven consecutive years (2006-2012) of the New Zealand Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Year 10 survey, a nationwide cross-sectional annual survey.

Participants

All New Zealand schools teaching Year 10 students are invited to participate in the survey; school-level participation rates have ranged between 44% and 58% and more than 25 000 students have responded to the survey in each year. The results presented draw on the subsample who reported smoking when surveyed (N∼9200). The data were weighted by age, ethnicity and school socioeconomic status (SES) to remove effec

SUBMITTER: Gendall P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3996823 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature