Waterpipe a gateway to cigarette smoking initiation among adolescents in Irbid, Jordan: a longitudinal study
OBJECTIVE: To compare the risk of cigarette smoking initiation among waterpipe-only smokers and never smokers in a school-based sample of adolescents from Irbid, Jordan.
METHODS: A total of 1454 cigarette-naïve participants were drawn from a longitudinal study on smoking behavior conducted in Irbid among 1781 seventh graders who were enrolled at baseline (2008) and completed the study questionnaire on smoking behavior annually until 2011. Grouped time-survival analysis was used to compare the risk of subsequent initiation of cigarette smoking between waterpipe smokers (n = 298) and never smokers (n = 1156) using adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI).
RESULTS: Risk of initiation of cigarette smoking among waterpipe smokers was significantly higher than among never smokers after adjusting for potential confounders (aHR 1.67, 95%CI 1.46–1.92). The association between waterpipe and cigarette smoking initiation was dose-dependent. The risk of initiating cigarette smoking increased with increase in the frequency of waterpipe smoking (P for linear trend < 0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: Waterpipe smoking led to the initiation of cigarette smoking among this cohort of Jordanian adolescents; the effect was dose-dependent.
Keywords: adolescents; cigarette; initiation; longitudinal; waterpipe
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA 2: Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA; Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, Florida, USA 3: Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan 4: Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies, Aleppo, Syria; University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA 5: Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA; Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies, Aleppo, Syria
Publication date: 01 April 2015
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