Table 3.
Social factors associated with current smoking among adolescents in Kurdistan, Iraq, 2006
| Demographic factor | OR (95% CI) |
| Parents smoke | |
| Father only | 1.14 (1.10,1.18) |
| Mother only | 1.65 (1.55,1.77) |
| None of them | 1 |
| Closest friends smoke | |
| All of them | 3.83 (3.66,4.00) |
| Most of them | 2.37 (2.29,2.45) |
| Some of them | 0.64 (0.63,0.66) |
| None of them | 1 |
| Boys who smoke have more or less friends | |
| More friends | 1.32 (1.28,1.35) |
| Less friends | 0.88 (0.86,0.90) |
| No difference from smokers | 1 |
| Girls who smoke have more or less friends | |
| More friends | 0.60 (0.58,0.62) |
| Less friends | 0.82 (0.80, 0.85) |
| No difference from smokers | 1 |
| Smoking cigarettes makes boys look more or less attractive | |
| More attractive | 1.15 (1.12, 1.18) |
| Less attractive | 0.69 (0.67,0.71) |
| No difference from non-smokers | 1 |
| smoking cigarettes makes girls look more or less attractive | |
| More attractive | 1.26 (1.22,1.30) |
| Less attractive | 1.09 (1.06, 1.12) |
| No difference | 1 |