Table 2 Prevalence of smoking behaviors among adolescents 14–17 years old from Argentina and the oPt, by gender (N = 4524)
From: Country and gender differences in the association between violence and cigarette smoking among youth
Girls (N = 2310) | Boys (N = 2214) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Argentina N = 1575 N (%)a | oPt N = 735 N (%)a | p-value | Argentina N = 1322 N (%)a | oPt N = 892 N (%)a | p-value | |
Smoked cigarettes in past montha | 498 (33.1) | 52 (7.1) | < 0.001 | 483 (36.5) | 352 (39.6) | 0.326 |
Number of days smoked in past monthb | ||||||
1–2 days | 265 (51.7) | 37 (71.1) | 0.166 | 204 (39.4) | 90 (25.4) | < 0.001 |
3–5 days | 94 (19.5) | 7 (13.2) | 85 (18.4) | 47 (13.5) | ||
6–9 days | 51 (11.2) | 2 (3.9) | 55 (11.3) | 31 (8.8) | ||
10–19 days | 37 (7.2) | 3 (6.1) | 64 (14.6) | 48 (13.6) | ||
20–29 days | 18 (3.7) | 2 (3.9) | 36 (7.8) | 29 (8.3) | ||
All 30 days | 33 (6.9) | 1 (1.8) | 39 (8.6) | 107 (30.4) | ||
Cigarettes smoked on days smokedb | ||||||
< 1 cig/day | 306 (60.9) | 47 (90.5) | < 0.001 | 248 (48.0) | 181 (51.3) | 0.001 |
1 cig/day | 80 (17.3) | 4 (7.5) | 90 (20.5) | 35 (10.1) | ||
2–10 cig/day | 101 (20.0) | 1 (2.0) | 121 (27.1) | 116 (33.1) | ||
> 10 cig/day | 10 (1.9) | 0 | 20 (4.4) | 20 (5.6) | ||
Able to stop smoking if wanted tob | 452 (92.3) | 48 (92.3) | 1.000 | 439 (92.1) | 264 (74.9) | < 0.001 |
Age of first cigarette b | ||||||
< 8 | 39 (8.3) | 6 (11.6) | 0.344 | 44 (8.1) | 28 (8.0) | < 0.001 |
8–9 | 17 (2.8) | 1 (1.9) | 21 (4.7) | 34 (9.6) | ||
10–11 | 44 (7.9) | 8 (16.1) | 51 (10.0) | 73 (20.6) | ||
12–13 | 197 (41.6) | 16 (32.1) | 197 (41.8) | 126 (36.0) | ||
14–15 | 170 (33.3) | 15 (30.2) | 136 (29.6) | 83 (23.5) | ||
16+ | 31 (6.0) | 4 (8.0) | 33 (5.9) | 8 (2.3) | ||