Self perceived health and smoking in adolescents

摘要: While long term health consequences of smoking as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, or pulmonary diseases have been largely analysed, short poorly studied, the case teenage smokers who are duration smokers. Some studies, mainly from United States and northern European countries, shown that more absence school, poorer self perceived health, frequent use medication, contact with services prevalent among adolescent smokers.1,2 However, in southern countries this relation has rarely assessed. The aim study was to examine association between daily adolescents their different problems, services. Data were gathered three similar designed Spanish National Health Interview Surveys representative general non-institutionalised population Spain conducted 1993, 1995, 1997 by Ministry Health. We pooled data obtain an adequate sample size. set up 2261 aged 16–18 years had complete information on (1215 boys 1046 girls, only two not included because missing information). Adolescents classified (adolescents declare at least one cigarette time interview), …