Abstract

Tobacco use since young increases the risk of harmful health effects and lifelong nicotine addiction. The literature has studies that reported adolescent's first whole cigarette smoking before the age 13 prevalence trends. This study aimed to bridge the gap by further identifying the sex-grade-race/ethnicity specific risk groups.

Author Details

Yu-ku Chen, BSN; Yu-han Zheng, BSN; Jiunn-Jye Sheu, PhD, MSPH

Sigma Membership

Non-member

Lead Author Affiliation

The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA

Type

Poster

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

N/A

Research Approach

N/A

Keywords:

First cigarette, Tobacco, Adolescence

Conference Name

28th International Nursing Research Congress

Conference Host

Sigma Theta Tau International

Conference Location

Dublin, Ireland

Conference Year

2017

Additional Files
download (1720 kB)

Rights Holder

All rights reserved by the author(s) and/or publisher(s) listed in this item record unless relinquished in whole or part by a rights notation or a Creative Commons License present in this item record.

All permission requests should be directed accordingly and not to the Sigma Repository.

All submitting authors or publishers have affirmed that when using material in their work where they do not own copyright, they have obtained permission of the copyright holder prior to submission and the rights holder has been acknowledged as necessary.

Review Type

Abstract Review Only: Reviewed by Event Host

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Download

Share

COinS
 

1991-2015 trends of adolescent smoked first whole cigarette before age 13 in the U.S.

Dublin, Ireland

Tobacco use since young increases the risk of harmful health effects and lifelong nicotine addiction. The literature has studies that reported adolescent's first whole cigarette smoking before the age 13 prevalence trends. This study aimed to bridge the gap by further identifying the sex-grade-race/ethnicity specific risk groups.