Adolescent's perceptions and expectations of parental action on children's smoking and snus use; national cross sectional data from three decades

Table 2 Adolescent's perceptions of parental practices on children's smoking.

		13 yr	15 yr	17 yr	Total
By trying to persuade their children not to smoke	1987	92	86	79	86
	1994	94	90	89	91
	2003	96	93	92	94
By not smoking themselves	1987	86	86	86	86
	1994	86	86	89	87
	2003	88	86	88	87
By not allowing the children to smoke at home	1987	63	64	59	62
	1994	84	82	76	81
	2003	87	87	84	86
By forbidding their children to smoke	1987	45	22	12	26
	1994	54	33	23	37
	2003	76	58	44	59
By reducing their children's pocket money*	1987	-	-	-	-
	1994	37	23	17	26
	2003	53	39	32	42

Adolescents answering yes in percent, by age, survey year and order of precedence.
All differences over time are statistically significant p < 0.001, with the exception of alternative "By not smoking themselves" with p = 0.038
* The alternative was not in the 1987 questionnaire

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