Associations of Adolescents Cigarette, Waterpipe, and Dual Tobacco Use With Parental Tobacco Use

Conclusions:
This is the first study to examine adolescent cigarette, waterpipe, and dual use with parental tobacco use. Study findings may help development of cessation interventions targeting parental tobacco use to prevent the rising waterpipe and dual use strain of the global tobacco epidemic.

Implications:
(1) Influence of parents’ cigarette smoking on adolescents’ smoking has been demonstrated in earlier studies, however, little is known about how tobacco use behaviors of mother and father influences an adolescent’s cigarette, waterpipe and dual cigarette/waterpipe use. (2) Associations of parental (both mother and father) tobacco use with adolescents’ tobacco use differed significantly if the adolescent is a waterpipe smoker or dual user compared to an adolescent cigarette smoker. (3) Adolescents’ exposed to their mothers’ WPS or dual use were more likely to be a waterpipe smoker or dual user. High likelihood of adolescents’ cigarette, waterpipe and dual use is found in homes where parental tobacco use is rampant with both parents smoking either cigarette, waterpipe or both.

Source: Nicotine and Tobacco Research - April 8, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: Veeranki, S. P., Alzyoud, S., Dierking, L., Kheriallah, K., Mzayek, F., Pbert, L., Ward, K. D. Tags: Brief Report Source Type: research