Trends and timing of cigarette smoking uptake among US young adults: survival analysis using annual national cohorts from 1976 to 2005.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To measure changes over time in cigarette smoking uptake prevalence and timing during young adulthood (ages 19-26 years), and associations between time-invariant/-varying characteristics and uptake prevalence/timing.

Design

Discrete-time survival modeling of data collected from United States high school seniors (modal age 17/18) enrolled in successive graduating classes from 1976 to 2005 and participating in four follow-up surveys (to modal age 25/26).

Setting

The longitudinal component of the Monitoring the Future study.

Participants

A total of 10 758 individuals reporting no life-time smoking when first surveyed as high school seniors.

Measurements

Smoking uptake (any, experimental, occasional and regular); socio-demographic variables; marital, co

SUBMITTER: Terry-McElrath YM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4478090 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature