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Parent and child cigarette use: a longitudinal, multigenerational study.

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  • 1Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. mvuolo@purdue.edu

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Children of parents who smoke are at higher risk for smoking, even if parents quit. Older siblings’ smoking also influences adolescent smoking initiation, highlighting intergenerational patterns.

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Area of Science:

  • Adolescent Health
  • Behavioral Science
  • Public Health

Background:

  • Parental smoking is a known risk factor for adolescent smoking.
  • Understanding long-term parental smoking patterns and their influence across generations is crucial for prevention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the association between parents' long-term smoking trajectories and their adolescent children's smoking likelihood.
  • To investigate the role of siblings in the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Latent class analysis used to define parental smoking trajectories (n=1010).
  • Logistic regression analyzed multigenerational data (214 parents, 314 offspring).
  • Controlled for child and parent-level factors, including child age and GPA.

Main Results:

  • Four parental smoking trajectories identified: stable nonsmokers, early-onset light, late-onset persistent, and early-onset heavy smokers.
  • Children of stable nonsmokers had an 8% smoking rate; children of other groups ranged from 23-29%.
  • Parental heavy smoking and older sibling smoking significantly predicted child smoking, with sibling smoking mediating the parental effect.

Conclusions:

  • Children of current and former smokers have an elevated risk of smoking, irrespective of declining US teen smoking rates.
  • Intergenerational smoking prevention should consider parents' complete smoking history and older sibling influence.