The young smokers would be more likely to have behavioral problems
Posted on September 4, 2008
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The pre-adolescents who have smoked their first cigarette at 12 or 13 years are more likely to become regular smokers and to have behavioral problems in subsequent years. This is what researchers at the Rand Corporation of Santa Monica, California, an institution of experts. Their study, published in the October issue of the Journal of adolescence health, followed 2,000 students over several years. Researchers have attended pre-adolescents of 12 or 13 years who had ever smoked at the beginning of the experiment until their 18 years. They noted that the percentage of young people with an addiction to smoking and young people with behavioural problems at school increased over the years among participants. A 18-year, 36% were regular smokers and 58% had behavioural problems, including alcohol abuse, trafficking, consumption of drugs and dropping out of school.
By comparing these results to other data, experts have found that young people have not started smoking at 12 or 13 years, had one and a half times more likely to have good academic results. The researchers also emphasize that children of parents who prohibit smoking are less likely to have behavioral problems.
In France, the impact of addiction among young smokers is very moving in the same direction. 19.6% of 15 year olds who started smoking before 12 years smoke more than ten cigarettes a day. In comparison, those who smoked their first cigarette at 15 years are 7.9% to smoke more than ten per day during the same year, according to a recent report published by Inpes.
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