Table 4.

Adolescents’ snus use by parental smoking and education (N = 183,226)

	Parental smokinga (%)			Parental educationb (%)
	yesb	no	p-value	Primary or secondary school	Higher educational level	p-value
Comprehensive (CS) (n = 99,597)
Boys (all)	35	65		60	40
Current snus user	44	56	<0.001	57	43	<0.001
Never tried or once	34	66		60	40
Girls (all)	37	63		63	37
Current snus user	55	45	<0.001	62	38	0.606
Never tried or once	36	64		63	37
Upper secondary (USS) (n = 46,644)
Boys (all)	24	76		46	54
Current snus user	27	73	<0.001	39	61	<0.001
Never tried or once	24	76		47	53
Girls (all)	28	72		52	48
Current snus user	34	66	<0.001	50	50	0.148
Never tried or once	28	72		52	48
Vocational school (VS) (n = 36,985)
Boys (all)	43	57		75	25
Current snus user	48	52	<0.001	69	31	<0.001
Never tried or once	41	59		76	24
Girls (all)	48	52	<0.001	80	20
Current snus user	57	43		77	23	0.016
Never tried or once	48	52		80	20

Comparisons in each school type, by gender of adolescents

Statistical evaluation was done by chi-square test

^aAt least one of the parents smoked

^bThe highest educational level at least one of the parents achieved

(Primary or secondary level included CS, USS, VS; Higher level included: vocational degree or university or polytechnics)