Publication: Tobacco use, beliefs and risk awareness in university students from 24 low, middle and emerging economy countries
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2014-01-01
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15137368
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Mahidol University
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Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. Vol.15, No.22 (2014), 10033-10038
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Karl Peltzer, Supa Pengpid Tobacco use, beliefs and risk awareness in university students from 24 low, middle and emerging economy countries. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. Vol.15, No.22 (2014), 10033-10038. doi:10.7314/APJCP.2014.15.22.10033 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/33424
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Tobacco use, beliefs and risk awareness in university students from 24 low, middle and emerging economy countries
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The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of tobacco use, beliefs and risk awareness and psychosocial correlates of tobacco use among university students in 24 low, middle and emerging economy countries. Using anonymous questionnaires, data were collected from 16953 undergraduate university students (mean age 20.9, SD = 2.9) from 25 universities in 24 countries across Asia, Africa and the Americas. Results indicate that overall 13.3% of the university students were current tobacco users, 22.4% for men and 6.6% for women, ranging from 3.8% in Singapore to 32.5% in Cameroon. The risk awareness of the smoking lung cancer link was 83.6%, while the risk awareness of the smoking heart disease link was 46.5%. Multivariate logistic regression found that older age, male gender, having a wealthy family background, living in a low income country, residing off campus on their own, poor beliefs in the importance not to smoke, awareness of the smoking heart disease link, hit by a sexual partner, depressive symptoms, and substance use (binge drinking and illicit drug use) were associated with current tobacco use.