Emotional, behavioural problems and cigarette smoking in adolescence: findings of a Greek cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Sample characteristics by smoking status

	Smoking status
	No		Yes
	n	%	n	%	P χ² test
Age (years)
12-15	670	96.30	26	3.70	<0.001
16-18	255	76.30	79	23.70
Gender
Girls	557	89.00	69	11.00	0.274
Boys	368	91.10	36	8.90
Family socioeconomic status
Low	317	84.30	59	15.70	<0.001
Medium	436	92.80	34	7.20
High	172	93.50	12	6.50
Mother smoker
No	580	92.50	47	7.50	<0.001
Yes	345	85.60	58	14.40
Father smoker
No	447	93.10	33	6.90	0.001
Yes	478	86.90	72	13.10
Exposure to family members' smoking
No	601	91.90	53	8.10	0.003
Yes	324	86.20	52	13.80
Leisure time, mean (SD)	58.60(23.40)		57.70(23.60)		0.720*

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