Family influence on smoking habits among secondary school children, 1997

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In April 1997, a cross-sectional study was carried out in Kota Bharu Kelantan to determine family influence on smoking habits among male secondary school children. Parents and siblings smoking habits, family structure, parental supervision, communication between parents and child, parental education and occupation were among family factors that were studied in relation to students' smoking habit. Other factors include having friends who smoked, influence of cigarette advertisement, academic achievement and student's knowledge about the dangers of smoking. For this study, 460 male form four students were randomly selected from six secondary schools. However, 38 (8.3%) of them were not included in the analysis because they did not fill up important sections of the questionnaire. The prevalence of cigarette smoking among male secondary school children was 33.2%. Through crude analysis family factors, father's smoking habit (Odds Ratio 1.85, 95% C.I. 1.08-3.16), brother's smoking habit and

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