Source: Annual Congress 2012 - Tobacco and shisha exposure in children and adolescents
Disease area: Paediatric lung diseases

Abstract

Introduction: The tobacco is now a widespread habit among the teenagers where thy begin early to smoke. The false attribution have an important role to push the adolescents to take the decision to begin early to smoke.i.e. to think that they are more attractive, modern, adult and more independent.
Methods: a representative sample of teenagers of our community offering a questionaire that include the false attributions with two answers: true or not true.The sample was of 350 students, 180 girls and 170 boys between12-18 years. The values of the correct answers is between 0 and 10 points analyzing the results with Kruskal Wallis test.
Results: 193 students (55.14%) smoke and 157 (44.86%) not smoke. We found significant differences of false attributions between smokers and not smokers.The smokers have most of false attributions about smoke habit having less scoring in the questionary (H:6.45, gl:1, p: 0.011).

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Scoring	Smokers	Not smokers
	n: 193	n:157
0-4	4.67	4.46
5-7	46.63	35.67
8-10	47.7	59.87

Conclusions: The smoke teenagers have more false attributions than not smokers.

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K. Abu Shams, M. Hernandez, M. De Carlos, A. Iridoy, S. Clemos, A. Villanueva (Pamplona, Spain). Tobacco false attributions in smokers and not smokers teenagers. Eur Respir J 2012; 40: Suppl. 56, 4056

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