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. 1998 Mar;93(3):433-40.
doi: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.1998.93343311.x.

The relationship between depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking in US adolescents

L G Escobedo  1 , M Reddy, G A Giovino
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The relationship between depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking in US adolescents

L G Escobedo et al. Addiction. 1998 Mar.

Abstract

Aims: Data from the Teenage Attitudes and Practices Survey were analyzed to assess the relationship between depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking. DESIGNS, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS: Nationally representative sample of adolescents interviewed in 1989 and again in 1993.

Measurements: Prevalence rate and adjusted odds ratio for smoking at follow-up by depressive symptoms status at baseline.

Findings: Adolescents with depressive symptoms were more likely than other adolescents to start smoking.

Conclusions: The associations between depressive symptoms and regular smoking appears to be established by adolescence.

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