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Cigarette Smoking among Junior High School Students in Beijing, China, 1988
*Department of Epidemiology, Division of Social Medicine and Public Health, Peking Union Medical College People's Republic of China
Department of, Social Medicine, Division of Social Medicine and Public Health, Peking Union Medical College People's Republic of China
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Zhu B-P (Department of Epidemiology, Division of Social Medicine and Public Health, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China), Liu M, Wang S-Q, He G-Q, Chen D-H, Shi J-H and Shang J-Z. Cigarette smoking among junior high school students in Beijing, China, 1988. International Journal of Epidemiology 1992; 21: 854–861. Prevalence, behavioural patterns and risk factors of cigarette smoking were studied in a sample of 8437 junior high school students in Beijing in 1988. Smoking at least occasionally was reported by 34.4% of boys and 3.9% of girls, though the intensity tended to be low. Smoking prevalence increased with age among boys. Inhaling smoke into the lungs was practised by 68.2% of the boys who smoked and 37.3% of the girls. ‘Believing that one looks elegant when smoking’, ‘trying to be fashionable’ and ‘seeking stimulation’ were the most important reasons for smoking. Of the boys 83.5% and of the girls 86.5% usually smoked with friends or schoolmates. Many more boys (19.2%) than girls (1.7%) smoked at home. Examinations of risk factors for teenage smoking showed that it was associated with a combination of familial, psychological and socio-school factors, with peer group pressure being the most important one.
Received 1 February 1992
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