Adolescent Smoking and Maternal Risk Factors. The NSDUH Report

摘要

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) allows an examination of some potential risk factors for adolescent cigarette use and the extent to which exposure to these risk factors is associated with an increased likelihood of adolescents becoming smokers. This report examines mothers' smoking and mothers' depression as possible risk factors for their adolescent children's cigarette use. The key findings in this report are based on combined 2005 to 2007 NSDUH data from the subsample of mothers aged 18 or older and their children aged 12 to 17 who lived in the same households. NSDUH asks persons aged 12 or older to report whether they smoked cigarettes. It also asks persons aged 18 or older questions to determine whether they experienced a major depressive episode (MDE) in the past year.