Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Antismoking messages and current cigarette smoking status in Somaliland: results from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2004. | Conflict and Health BioMed Central Research Open Access Antismoking messages and current cigarette smoking status in Somaliland results from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2004 Seter Siziya1 Emmanuel Rudatsikira2 and Adamson S Muula 3 Address Department of Community Medicine University of Zambia School of Medicine Lusaka Zambia 2Departments of Global Health Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Public Health Loma Linda University California USA and 3Department of Community Health University of Malawi College of Medicine Blantyre Malawi Email Seter Siziya - ssiziya@ Emmanuel Rudatsikira - erudatsikira@ Adamson S Muula - muula@ Corresponding author Published 23 May 2008 Received 18 March 2008 Conflict and Health 2008 2 6 doi 1752-1505-2-6 Accepted 23 May 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 6 2008 Siziya et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Tobacco is a leading cause of death globally. There are limited reports on current cigarette smoking prevalence and its associated-antismoking messages among adolescents in conflict zones of the world. We therefore conducted secondary analysis of data to estimate the prevalence of current cigarette smoking and to determine associations of antismoking messages with smoking status. Methods We used data from the Somaliland Global Youth Tobacco Survey GYTS of 2004 to estimate the prevalence of smoking. We also assessed whether being exposed to anti-smoking media education and having discussed with family members on the harmful effects of smoking were associated with smoking. Logistic regression analysis was used to assess these associations. Current smoking was defined as .
