Wada K, Price R K, Fukui S
Division of Drug Dependence and Psychotropic Drug Clinical Research, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Chiba-ken, Japan.
Drug Alcohol Depend. 1997 Jul 4;46(3):137-45. doi: 10.1016/s0376-8716(97)83277-2.
To examine the relationship between cigarette smoking and solvent use among Japanese adolescents, epidemiologic data from a survey of 4433 junior high school students were analyzed. For both males and females, the frequency of cigarette smoking was positively associated with curiosity about solvent use, the perception of closeness to solvent users and the lifetime and past-year prevalence rates of solvent use. On the other hand, the frequency of smoking was negatively associated with the endorsement of the current Japanese law which maintains the illegality of solvent use. These results are reported for the first time from epidemiologic-based data among early adolescents in Japan. Although correlational, they suggest the role of cigarette smoking for Japanese adolescents in the initiation of other illicit drug use in these age groups.
为研究日本青少年吸烟与使用溶剂之间的关系，对一项针对4433名初中生的调查所获流行病学数据进行了分析。对于男性和女性而言，吸烟频率与对使用溶剂的好奇、与溶剂使用者的亲近感认知以及溶剂使用的终生患病率和过去一年患病率呈正相关。另一方面，吸烟频率与现行日本法律（该法律维持溶剂使用的非法性）的认可度呈负相关。这些结果首次基于日本青少年早期的流行病学数据报告。尽管是相关性研究，但它们表明吸烟对于日本青少年在这些年龄组开始使用其他非法药物方面所起的作用。
