caa a22 4500 397516363 CHVBK 20180308164620.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199512 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/eurpub/5.4.281 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/eurpub/5.4.281 Perception of benefits to smoking cigarettes in adolescents unexposed to smoker in their social environment [Elektronische Daten] [ALEXANDER V. PROKHOROV, ARTHUR FARKAS, ELIZABETH GILPIN, MICHAEL JOHNSON, DILEEP BAL, JOHN P. PIERCE] The objective of the study was to describe a group of adolescents who have no smokers in their social environment and to examine their beliefs regarding the benefits of smoking. The design was a telephone survey. A population-based survey was conducted in California in 1990. There were 7,767 adolescent respondents between 12 and 17 years of age, 373 (5%) of whom were unexposed to smokers in their social environment. A positive response to any 1 of 5 questions concerning a belief in the benefits of smoking was the main outcome measure. In teenagers unexposed to smokers in their social environment 70% were 12 or 13 years of age compared to only 35% of teenagers exposed to smokers. Unexposed teenagers were more often female and more often white rather than Hispanic, African-American or Asian. After adjusting for demographic factors, unexposed teenagers were only one-quarter as likely as exposed teenagers to harbour a belief in the benefits of smoking. However, 40% of unexposed teenagers held such a belief with 28% believing that smoking helps people feel more comfortable in social situations, 19% believing that smoking helps people relax and 13% believing that smoking helps people keep their weight down. It is unlikely that the group of teenagers unexposed to smokers in their social environment acquired their beliefs about the benefits of smoking through contact with smokers. Cigarette advertising might be a likely source of these perceptions. © Copyright European Journal of Public Health ORIGINAL ARTICLES nationallicence adolescent smoking nationallicence perceived benefits of smoking nationallicence PROKHOROV ALEXANDER V. Department of Behavioral Science, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA aut FARKAS ARTHUR Cancer prevention and Control Program, Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla Callformia, USA aut GILPIN ELIZABETH Cancer prevention and Control Program, Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla Callformia, USA aut JOHNSON MICHAEL Tobacco Control Section, Callifornia Department of Health Services Sacramento California, USA aut BAL DILEEP Tobacco Control Section, Callifornia Department of Health Services Sacramento California, USA aut PIERCE JOHN P. Cancer prevention and Control Program, Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla Callformia, USA aut The European Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press 5/4(1995-12), 281-285 1101-1262 5:4<281 1995 5 eurpub https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/5.4.281 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/5.4.281 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- PROKHOROV ALEXANDER V. Department of Behavioral Science, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- FARKAS ARTHUR Cancer prevention and Control Program, Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla Callformia, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- GILPIN ELIZABETH Cancer prevention and Control Program, Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla Callformia, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- JOHNSON MICHAEL Tobacco Control Section, Callifornia Department of Health Services Sacramento California, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- BAL DILEEP Tobacco Control Section, Callifornia Department of Health Services Sacramento California, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- PIERCE JOHN P. Cancer prevention and Control Program, Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla Callformia, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The European Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press 5/4(1995-12), 281-285 1101-1262 5:4<281 1995 5 eurpub Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford