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Table 1 Sociodemographic and behavioural characteristics, by current tobacco use in adolescencea

From: Impact of snus use in teenage boys on tobacco use in young adulthood; a cohort from the HUNT Study Norway

 

Total

Snus use, but not smoke

Smoking, but not snus

Dual use

No tobacco

p-value**

Participants

1346 (100)

149 (11)

105 (8)

109 (8)

983 (73)

 

Age years, mean ± SD

16.2 ± 1.8

17.0 ± 1.6

16.8 ± 1.6

16,7 ± 1.5

15.9 ± 1.8

< 0.001

13–15 years, n (%)

625 (100)

40 (6)

32 (5)

33 (5)

520 (83)

 

16–19 years, n (%)

721 (100)

109 (15)

73 (10)

76 (11)

463 (64)

< 0.001

Parents living together

 Mother and father married/ living together, n (%)

1116 (100)

118 (11)

80 (7)

81 (7)

837 (75)

 

 Mother and father divorced/ not living together, n (%)

187 (100)

29 (16)

23 (12)

25 (13)

110 (59)

< 0.001

Family smoking

 No family member smoke, n (%)

685 (100)

71 (10)

35 (5)

31 (5)

548 (80)

 

 Father or mother smokes, n (%)

362 (100)

41 (11)

39 (11)

39 (11)

243 (67)

 

 Father and mother smoke, n (%)

235 (100)

30 (13)

22 (9)

29 (12)

154 (66)

 

 Siblings and/ or others smoke, but no parent, n (%)

59 (100)

7 (12)

8 (14)

10 (17)

34 (58)

< 0.001

Parental alcohol use

 Have never seen parents drunk, n (%)

507 (100)

21 (4)

21 (4)

21 (4)

444 (88)

 

 Yes, a few times, n (%)

451 (100)

59 (13)

42 (9)

42 (9)

308 (68)

 

 Yes, sometimes a year, monthly or weekly, n (%)

347 (100)

65 (19)

39 (11)

45 (13)

198 (57)

< 0.001

Plans for own education

 Not yet decided, n (%)

403 (100)

36 (9)

37 (9)

30 (7)

300 (74)

 

 Vocational high school or similar, n (%)

420 (100)

54 (13)

33 (8)

44 (10)

289 (69)

 

 High school until 4 years, n (%)

237 (100)

25 (11)

16 (7)

15 (6)

181 (76)

 

 University, more than 4 years, n (%)

242 (100)

30 (12)

17 (7)

17 (7)

178 (74)

< 0.301

  1. a All the tobacco use categories include both daily and occasional use. Variables with missing data include Parents living together (3%), Family smoking (0.4%), Parental alcohol use (3%), and Plans for own education (3%). ** p-value: test for independence between the socio-demographic and the tobacco variable at baseline