Abstract
ABSTRACT This study secondary analysed the last Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) implemented in Egypt which is a cross-sectional school-based survey used self-administered questionnaire to research smoking among a national representative sample of (2,141) adolescents aged 13–15 years. The study identified that male adolescents are more likely to smoke than female adolescents in Egypt. The likelihood of adolescents’ smoking in Egypt was significantly associated with age; low educational level of fathers; having no weekly pocket of money; poor self-confidence to refuse friends’ smoking offers; absence of restriction on selling cigarettes to adolescents near their schools; and observing teachers’ smoking inside schools. Whereas accessing information, through schools, about smoking consequences prevents adolescents’ smoking. Adolescence is critical period for experimenting and continue smoking. The study identified some personal, parenteral, and school related factors that influence adolescents’ smoking in Egypt. These factors should be considered in designing smoking prevention program that targets adolescents.
Highlights
Tobacco is the main cause of preventable morbidity and premature death (WHO, 2019)
This study aimed to identify factors that influence smoking among adolescents in Egypt using the recent national Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) data (WHO & CDC, 2014b)
This study explored several factors in relations to ever and current smoking among Egyptian adolescents
Summary
Tobacco is the main cause of preventable morbidity and premature death (WHO, 2019). Smoking increases the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCD) (WHO, 2013) which cause 68% of the global deaths; 82% of these deaths happen in Low- and Middle-Income Countries mainly before the age of 70 (WHO, 2014, 2019). Egyptian adults mainly use smoked tobacco, manufactured cigarettes followed by Shisha (water-pipe) (MOHP, WHO & CDC, 2009). Egyptians’ smoking rate increases annually more than the population growth rate (8–9% versus 2%) (SALEH et al, 2009). The last Global Adults Tobacco Survey revealed that the rate of tobacco use in Egypt is the highest in the Arab world and the second highest rate in the MiddleEast (ASMA et al, 2015), as 23.8% and 19.7% of Egyptian adults had ever tried tobacco
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