Smoking uptake in UK children: analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Laverty, Anthony A, Filippidis, Filippos T, Taylor-Robinson, David ORCID: 0000-0002-5828-7724, Millett, Christopher, Bush, Andrew and Hopkinson, Nicholas S (2019) Smoking uptake in UK children: analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study THORAX, 74 (6). pp. 607-610. ISSN 0040-6376, 1468-3296

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Abstract

We used data from 11 577 children in the UK Millennium Cohort Study, collected at approximately 14 years of age (early teens), to assess characteristics associated with smoking, and generated regional estimates of numbers of smokers. 13.8% of UK early teens studied had ever smoked; 1.9% were current smokers. This corresponds to 2 28 136 and 39 653 (13-14 year olds) in the UK, respectively. Ever smoking risk increased if caregivers (26.0% vs 10.9%) or friends smoked (35.1% vs 4.0%), with a dose-response effect for friends' smoking. Caregiver and peer-group smoking remain important drivers of child smoking uptake and thus important targets for intervention.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Humans, Smoking, Adolescent, Female, Male, United Kingdom
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	26 Nov 2018 10:44
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2026 05:26
DOI:	10.1136/thoraxjnl-2018-212254
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3029042
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