Significant Others, Knowledge, and Belief on Smoking as Factors Associated with Tobacco Use in Italian Adolescents

Table 2

Sources of influence of subjects’ smoking status. Multivariate logistic regression analysis adjusted for age, gender, and education.

	OR	95% CI	𝑃
Relatives
Age	1.911	1.747–2.091	<0.0001
Gender	0.924	0.748–1.142	0.4670
Education	0.592	0.444–0.788	0.0003
Smokers in the family	2.394	1.842–3.111	<0.0001
Father’s smoking	1.579	1.164–2.141	0.0033
Mother’s smoking	1.002	0.703–1.428	0.9896
Other relatives smoking	2.060	1.295–3.278	0.0023
Teachers
Age	2.201	1.932–2.507	<0.0001
Gender	1.357	1.013–1.819	0.0410
Education	0.154	0.102–0.233	<0.0001
Knowing teachers who smoke	1.345	0.985–1.839	0.0626
Seeing teachers who smoke	3.519	2.310–5.361	<0.0001
Individual and personal source of influence
Age	1.898	1.733–2.079	<0.0001
Gender	1.020	0.823–1.264	0.8572
Education	0.520	0.390–0.695	<0.0001
Influence of friends	0.183	0.086–0.389	<0.0001
Influence of family	1.040	0.674–1.606	0.8582
Influence of desire to grow up	0.789	0.621–1.004	0.0543
Influence of feeling of inferiority	0.490	0.347–0.693	<0.0001