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Table 3 Reported causative factors that influenced them to become smokers or non-smokers

From: Smoking among adolescents in Northern Greece: a large cross-sectional study about risk and preventive factors

Why did you start smoking?

Why do you not smoke?

Due to curiosity

56.6%

Smoking harms my health

81%

To deal with unpleasant feelings

38.7%

I hate cigarette’s smell

46.2%

Because my friends smoke

28%

It will affect my performance on sports

32.3%

To enjoy its taste

25.3%

I am afraid about cigarette dependence

28.8%

As a reaction to prohibition

15.8%

Most of my friends do not smoke

5.5%

I believe that smokers are fascinating personalities

8.5%

I can not afford it

2.6%

  1. df: degrees of freedom, SD: standard deviation, BMI: Body mass index, OR: odds ratio, CI: confidence interval.
  2. a After backward elimination method with the likelihood ratio criteria.
  3. Multivariable model: Wald χ2 = 2562.15;df = 15.