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Peer and parental influences on adolescent tobacco use

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Longitudinal models of the development of adolescent smoking and smokeless tobacco (ST) use were tested for a sample of 643 adolescents, age 14 to 17. The sample was assessed at three time points. Smoking, smokeless tobacco, and other problem behaviors formed a single problem behavior factor. Structural equation modeling indicated that inadequate parental monitoring and association with deviant peers at Time 2 predicted tobacco use at Time 3. When parental and peer smoking at Time 2 were added to the model, each accounted for significant variance in predicting Time 3 smoking, but inadequate parental monitoring and association with deviant peers still accounted for some of the variance in Time 3 smoking. In predicting boys' smokeless tobacco use, monitoring at Time 2 predicted smokeless tobacco use, but only when parental approval of ST use was not included. Fathers approval of ST use at Time 2 predicted ST use at Time 3, while maternal disapproval predicted its use.

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Preparation of this paper was supported in part by Grant DA 07389 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Grants CA 38273 and CA 44648 from the National Cancer Institute.

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Biglan, A., Duncan, T.E., Ary, D.V. et al. Peer and parental influences on adolescent tobacco use. J Behav Med 18, 315–330 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01857657

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