Abstract
The goal of this paper is to estimate the prevalence and to identify factors related to the use of other tobacco products among schoolchildren. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a representative sample of high school students enrolled in the 9th grade. A total of 109,104 students were interviewed, and 4.8% of them had used other tobacco products in the previous 30 days. The factors that increased the likelihood of using other tobacco products were: male gender, being administratively dependent on the school, having a job, living with mother and/or father, perception that the parents or guardians would not care if they smoked, having difficulties sleeping, not having close friends, having experienced domestic violence, skipping classes, having used tobacco and alcohol within the past 30 days, having experimented drugs, having smoking parents or guardians, having seen people smoking. The prevalence of using other tobacco products is high among Brazilian students, and is associated with higher socioeconomic conditions, presence of risk behavior, and living in an environment permissible to tobacco use.
Highlights
PeNSE included high school students enrolled in the 9th grade, day-time classes, of public and private schools in urban or countryside schools of Brazil 12
Distribution of tobacco exposure prevalence and respective 95% confidence intervals (95%CI), according to the nature of the exposure and sex of high school students enrolled in the 9th grade in Brazil
In the analysis according to sex, the proportion of students who used other tobacco products in the past 30 days was higher among males over females, respectively 5.4% and 4.3%, and this is a statistically significant difference (p = 0.000) (Table 1)
Summary
The use of tobacco by young people is associated with significant increase of health problems during childhood and adolescence, and is an important risk factor for chronic noncommunicable diseases [1,2,3]. Data from the National Youth Tobacco Surveys (NYTS), applied to young students of the United States between 2011 and 2014 showed a significant increase in the prevalence of electronic cigarettes and tobacco use, and a significant decrease in cigarette smoking in that period. The electronic cigarette was the tobacco product most frequently utilized by high school (13.4%) and elementary school (3.9%) students, followed by narghile, with the proportions of 9.4% and 2.5% respectively. The highest increase in prevalence of use of other tobacco products was between 2013 and 2014. In 2014, 24.6% of high school students used some type of tobacco product 7
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