Cigarette Smoking and Multiple Health Risk Behaviors
Charrier L, Berchialla P, Dalmasso P, Borraccino A, Lemma P, Cavallo F. Cigarette Smoking and Multiple Health Risk Behaviors: A Latent Class Regression Model to Identify a Profile of Young Adolescents. Risk Analysis. August 2019; 39(8):1771-1782.
Authors of this study characterized smoking-related profiles from a population of 60,000 Italian adolescents based on analysis of survey data of several grades of high school students. They found some interesting profiles which could provide clues to dealing with smoking behavior. They state that their findings, “may provide an additional opportunity to devise interventions that could be more effective to improve smoking cessation among occasional smokers and to adequately address other risk behaviors among frequent smokers.”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/risa.13297
