
Smoking Assessment and Current Smoking Status Among Adolescents in Primary Care Settings
Author(s) -
Steffani R. Bailey,
Katie Fankhauser,
Miguel Marino,
Teresa Schmidt,
Sophia Giebultowicz,
David Ezekiel-Herrera,
John Heintzman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
nicotine and tobacco research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.338
H-Index - 113
eISSN - 1469-994X
pISSN - 1462-2203
DOI - 10.1093/ntr/ntaa106
Subject(s) - medicine , odds ratio , odds , confidence interval , asthma , smoking cessation , demography , demographics , environmental health , logistic regression , pathology , sociology
Initiating tobacco use in adolescence increases the risk of nicotine dependence and continued use into adulthood. Primary care visits provide opportunities for the assessment and treatment of tobacco use; however, little is known about prevalence and correlates of assessing smoking status and current use among adolescents in these settings.