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. 2010 Jan;35(1):46-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.07.005. Epub 2009 Aug 21.

Intervention effects on tobacco use in Arab and non-Arab American adolescents

Virginia H Rice  1 , Linda S Weglicki, Thomas Templin, Hikmet Jamil, Adnan Hammad
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Intervention effects on tobacco use in Arab and non-Arab American adolescents

Virginia H Rice et al. Addict Behav. 2010 Jan.

Erratum in

  • Addict Behav. 2010 Apr;35(4):370

Abstract

A quasi-experimental design was used to test a modified Project Towards No Tobacco (TNT) use program on cigarette smoking in 380 Arab American and 236 non-Arab American 9th graders in the Midwest. Tenth grade Non-Arab American students given the intervention as 9th graders were 23% less likely to experiment (Odds Ratio=1.31, 95% CI: 1.05, 1.64) or to have smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days (Odd Ratio=1.43 times, 95% CI: 1.03, 2.01) compared to Arab American youth. Arab American students reported greater experimentation with water pipe smoking than cigarettes (38% vs. 22%), and more current (16% vs. 6%) and regular (7% vs. 3%) use of water pipes than cigarettes, respectively. The intervention designed to focus on cigarette smoking had non-significant effects on water pipe smoking. These findings provide support for a school-based intervention revised to focus on prevention as well as cessation and to be culturally consistent. They also call for further research and intervention tailoring to address the problem of water pipe smoking in a growing Arab American adolescent population.

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Cigarette smoking behavior outcomes for Arab American and non-Arab American students. (Bars are standard error of percentage.)
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