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

Table 4

Multivariate logistic regression analysis of all the statistically significant variables, adjusted for age, gender, and education.

	OR	95% CI	𝑃
Age	1.640	1.461–1.840	<0.0001
Gender	1.117	0.848–1.471	0.4307
Education	0.656	0.445–0.968	0.0337
Smokers in the family	1.743	1.309–2.322	0.0001
Seeing teachers who smoke	1.830	1.343–2.495	0.0001
Influence of friends	0.234	0.097–0.567	0.0013
Influence of feeling of inferiority	0.570	0.379–0.858	0.0071
Nicotine is harmful to the fetus	0.278	0.106–0.726	0.0089
Secondhand smoke is harmful	0.663	0.340–1.291	0.2268
Secondhand smoke is harmful to kids’ growth	0.342	0.214–0.548	<0.0001
Number of cigarette/day harmful to health	1.259	0.926–1.713	0.1418
Pipe/cigar are harmful to health like cigarettes	0.478	0.365–0.625	<0.0001