Moreno C, Laniado-Laborin R, Sallis J F, Elder J P, de Moor C, Castro F G, Deosaransingh K
Center for Behavioral and Community Health, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, California 92120.
Prev Med. 1994 Jan;23(1):48-53. doi: 10.1006/pmed.1994.1007.
Latino youth have been found to have a higher prevalence of tobacco use than do other ethnic groups, possibly due to cultural factors and parental influences.
Seventh-grade students (N = 589) were surveyed in San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico, to assess parental influences to smoke. These parental influence variables were studied with logistic regression, adjusting for age, sex, and number of parents who smoke.
Among those whose parents smoke, Mexican students were asked to strike a match to light their parents' cigarettes significantly more often (57%) than Mexican-American students (37%) and U.S. Others (37%) (P < 0.05). Seventeen percent of the Mexican students reported having lit a cigarette in their own mouth for their parents, compared to 18% of Mexican-Americans and only 3% of U.S. Others (P < 0.01). Mexicans reported buying cigarettes for their parents more often (62%), compared with 36% for Mexican-Americans and 30% for U.S. Others (P < 0.01). Child smoking was only associated with friend offers of tobacco and parental prompts to light cigarettes in their mouths.
Latino parents are inadvertently prompting their children to smoke. Smoking prevention programs targeting Latino youth may need to include a parental tobacco education component.
研究发现，拉丁裔青少年的吸烟率高于其他种族群体，这可能是由于文化因素和父母的影响。
对加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥和墨西哥蒂华纳的七年级学生（N = 589）进行了调查，以评估父母对吸烟的影响。这些父母影响变量通过逻辑回归进行研究，并对年龄、性别和吸烟父母的数量进行了调整。
在父母吸烟的学生中，墨西哥学生被要求为父母点烟的频率（57%）显著高于墨西哥裔美国学生（37%）和美国其他学生（37%）（P < 0.05）。17%的墨西哥学生报告曾为父母用自己的嘴点烟，相比之下，墨西哥裔美国学生为18%，而美国其他学生仅为3%（P < 0.01）。墨西哥学生报告为父母购买香烟的频率更高（62%），而墨西哥裔美国学生为36%，美国其他学生为30%（P < 0.01）。儿童吸烟仅与朋友提供烟草以及父母提示用嘴点烟有关。
拉丁裔父母在不经意间促使他们的孩子吸烟。针对拉丁裔青少年的吸烟预防项目可能需要纳入父母烟草教育内容。
