Table 2.

OR of regular smoking* according to adolescents’ sociodemographic features and household socioeconomic and smoking characteristics; Brazil—2008

Characteristics	OR (95% CI)	p Value
Adolescents’ characteristics
Sex
Male	1.00	<0.01
Female	0.47 (0.33 to 0.64)
Age (years)
15–16	1.00	<0.01
17–19	3.77 (2.63 to 5.39)
Self-declared race/skin colour
White	1.00
Black	1.70 (1.05 to 2.75)	0.030
Brown	1.02 (0.77 to 1.36)	0.854
Other†	0.65 (0.08 to 4.84)	0.672
Social status
Full student	1.00
Only working or working and studying	4.73 (3.22 to 6.92)	<0.001
Neither studying/Neither working	6.99 (4.56 to 10.70)	<0.001
School delay (years)
None	1.00
One	2.33 (1.41 to 3.84)	<0.001
Two	3.40 (2.11 to 5.48)	<0.001
Three or more	6.56 (4.62 to 9.33)	<0.001
Household characteristics
Urban/rural dwelling
Urban	1.00
Rural	0.80 (0.54 to 1.19)	0.287
Household per capita income
5° quintile (highest)	1.00
4° quintile	1.63 (1.05 to 2.51)	0.028
3° quintile	1.03 (0.64 to 1.67)	0.314
2° quintile	1.23 (0.78 to 1.96)	0.361
1° quintile (lowest)	1.46 (0.93 to 2.28)	0.093
Head of the household schooling (years)
0–8	1.00
9–11	0.57 (0.37 to 0.88)	0.011
12–14	0.59 (0.40 to 0.85)	0.005
15+	0.58 (0.29 to 1.16)	0.128
Female-headed household
No	1.00
Yes	1.02 (0.77 to 1.35)	0.855
Number of smokers
Zero	1.00
One	1.93 (1.42 to 2.63)	<0.001
Two	3.00 (1.98 to 4.53)	<0.001
Three or more	9.01 (4.45 to 18.19)	<0.001
Household smoking rule
Not allowed	1.00
Generally not allowed	1.47 (0.93 to 2.30)	0.092
Allowed	2.18 (1.61 to 2.94)	<0.001

Source: Brazilian National Household Sample Survey (PNAD, 2008) and GATS 2008.

*Report of having smoked 100 cigarettes in lifetime and currently smoking every day or not every day.

†Included Asian descendent and Indigenous.

GATS, Global Adult Tobacco Survey; PNAD, Pesquisa Nacional por Amostragem de Domicilio.