Smoking, alcohol consumption, and illicit substances use among adolescents in Poland

Table 2 Cigarette smoking, the age of initiation, frequency of cigarettes smoking and the attitude of parents to cigarette smoking among adolescents in Poland stratified by sex

		Sex							p
		female		male		total
		n	%	n	%	N	%
The age of initiation	Below the age of 8 years	3	1,03	23	9,27	26	4,83	Z = 4,09	< 0,001
	8–10 years of age	10	3,45	12	4,84	22	4,09
	13–14 years of age	54	18,62	52	20,97	106	19,70
	15–16 years of age	8	2,76	9	3,63	17	3,16
	17–18 years of age	0	0,00	1	0,40	1	0,19
	Never smoked cigarettes	195	67,24	129	52,02	324	60,22
	Total	290	100,00	248	100,00	538	100,00
Current cigarettes smoking	I don’t smoke cigarettes	204	70,59	130	52,85	334	62,43	χ²(1, N = 535) = 17,84	< 0,001
	I smoke cigarettes	85	29,41	116	47,15	201	37,57
	Total	289	100,00	246	100,00	535	100,00
Frequency of cigarettes smoking [referred only to those, who declared cigarettes smoking]	15–20 cigarettes per day	6	7,06	17	14,66	23	11,44	Z = 0,73	0,467
	10–15 cigarettes per day	5	5,88	3	2,59	8	3,98
	5–10 cigarettes per day	23	27,06	29	25,00	52	25,87
	1–5 cigarettes per day	11	12,94	17	14,66	28	13,93
	Occasionally	40	47,06	50	43,10	90	44,78
	Total	85	100,00	116	100,00	201	100,00
parental attitude to cigarettes smoking [referred only to those, who declared cigarettes smoking]	Accept occasionally	2	2,47	5	4,39	7	3,59	χ²(3, N = 195) = 1,01	0,845
	accept	5	6,17	8	7,02	13	6,67
	I smoke together with parents	7	8,64	13	11,40	20	10,26
	Don’t accept	67	82,72	88	77,19	155	79,49
	Total	81	100,00	114	100,00	195	100,00

Differences between female and men were analysed using either U Mann-Whitney test or Pearson chi-square test. (Those, who currently do not smoke cigarettes could have the history of smoking in the past)

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