Risk Factors for Tobacco Use by Utilizers of the Pediatric Emergency Department

Mahabee-Gittens et al examine the prevalence of current tobacco use and identify risk factors for tobacco use in the pediatric emergency department setting. The current study provides important baseline information that can be used to develop innovative approaches to tobacco education and prevention...

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Published in:Clinical pediatrics 2003-09, Vol.42 (7), p.653-656
Main Authors: Mahabee-Gittens, E. Melinda, Berz, Kate, Pickup, Tiffany
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Analysis
Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy
Biological and medical sciences
Causes of
Child
Children
Cross-Sectional Studies
Demographic aspects
Disease
Emergency and intensive care: techniques, logistics
Emergency Service, Hospital
Female
Health aspects
Health participants
Humans
Intensive care medicine
Intensive care unit. Emergency transport systems. Emergency, hospital ward
Male
Medical sciences
Mortality
Ohio - epidemiology
Parent and child
Pediatric research
Pediatrics
Prevalence
Prevention
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Risk Factors
Risk factors (Health)
Smokers
Smoking
Smoking - epidemiology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Teenagers
Tobacco
United States
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Summary:Mahabee-Gittens et al examine the prevalence of current tobacco use and identify risk factors for tobacco use in the pediatric emergency department setting. The current study provides important baseline information that can be used to develop innovative approaches to tobacco education and prevention in the pediatric emergency department so that tobacco initiation can be prevented.
ISSN:0009-9228
1938-2707
DOI:10.1177/000992280304200714