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The relationship between depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking in US adolescents
L G Escobedo1, M Reddy, G A Giovino
1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Addiction (Abingdon, England)
|May 18, 1999
Abstract
Aims:
Data from the Teenage Attitudes and Practices Survey were analyzed to assess the relationship between depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking. DESIGNS, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS: Nationally representative sample of adolescents interviewed in 1989 and again in 1993.
Measurements:
Prevalence rate and adjusted odds ratio for smoking at follow-up by depressive symptoms status at baseline.
Findings:
Adolescents with depressive symptoms were more likely than other adolescents to start smoking.
Conclusions:
The associations between depressive symptoms and regular smoking appears to be established by adolescence.