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

Table 3

Beliefs on smoking and second-hand smoke harmfulness to health and knowledge about nicotine/smoke damages. Multivariate logistic regression analysis adjusted for age, gender, and education.

	OR	95% CI	𝑃
Believes on smoking and secondhand smoke harmfulness
Age	1.763	1.594–1.949	<0.0001
Gender	0.976	0.772–1.233	0.8377
Education	0.962	0.497–0.964	0.0296
Nicotine is harmful to health	0.212	0.091–0.492	0.0003
Nicotine is harmful to pregnancy	2.293	0.807–6.513	0.1192
Nicotine is harmful to the fetus	0.275	0.116–0.651	0.0033
Secondhand smoke is harmful	0.282	0.187–0.427	<0.0001
Secondhand smoke is harmful to kids’ growth	0.551	0.306–0.993	0.0475
Knowledge on nicotine/smoke damages
Age	1.810	1.614–2.030	<0.0001
Gender	0.826	0.637–1.071	0.1487
Education	0.891	0.627–1.267	0.5216
Number of cigarette/day harmful to health	2.012	1.482–2.731	<0.0001
Pipe/cigar are harmful to health like cigarettes	0.601	0.466–0.774	<0.0001
Nicotine induces dependence	0.724	0.328–1.597	0.4239
Need to fight tobacco use	0.788	0.601–1.033	0.0845