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CIGARETTE SMOKING IN SYDNEY SCHOOLCHILDREN AGED 12 TO 13 YEARS: 1971 TO 1975
Author(s) -
Leeder S. R.,
Peat J. K.,
Woolcock A. J.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1977.tb76716.x
Subject(s) - cigarette smoking , smoking prevalence , medicine , demography , environmental health , pediatrics , population , sociology
The cigarette smoking prevalence of schoolchildren aged 12 to 13 years in 1975 was compared with that in an age–matched sample interviewed in 1971. Identical methods were used to collect the smoking prevalence data. There was an increase in smoking prevalence over the years 1971 to 1975, with 22.5% of boys smoking one or more cigarettes per week in 1975 compared with 14% in 1971 and with 19.1% of girls smoking this number in 1975 compared with 4.6% in 1971. Alternative strategies to attack the problem of smoking among children are needed.