Waterpipe Use and Cognitive Susceptibility to Cigarette Smoking Among Never-Cigarette Smoking Jordanian Youth: Analysis of the 2009 Global Youth Tobacco Survey

摘要

Introduction:Susceptibility to cigarette smoking, defined as lack of a firm decision to not initiate smoking, predicts youth smoking initiation and experimentation and is a first step in the transition to regular smoking. This study investigated whether waterpipe (WP) smoking, an increasingly prevalent form of tobacco use among Arab adolescents, was associated with increased susceptibility to cigarette smoking.