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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 11.
Published in final edited form as: Tob Control. 2018 May 9;28(2):220–226. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054290

Table 4.

Logistic regression of student tobacco use, community compliance with POS laws and covariates (n=1373)

Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Current tobacco use Current smokeless tobacco use
Male 1.21 0.78 1.88 1.26 0.82 1.91
Age (referent=11–13 years)
 14 0.99 0.51 1.93 1.20 0.60 2.38
 15–17 1.39 0.80 2.43 1.48 0.85 2.59
Muslim 1.95** 1.17 3.26 1.83* 1.05 3.19
Has pocket money 1.81*** 1.23 2.66 2.13*** 1.47 3.10
Parent tobacco use (referent=none)
 One parent 2.18*** 1.39 3.40 1.86* 1.01 3.45
 Both parents 4.79*** 2.32 9.90 4.06** 1.37 12.04
Has friends who use tobacco 2.65*** 1.52 4.61 2.42** 1.41 4.17
Tobacco easy to access 2.31*** 1.41 3.77 2.31*** 1.41 3.77
Positive tobacco attitudes score 1.63** 1.13 2.36 1.52* 1.06 2.17
Tobacco prevention education at school 0.99 0.77 1.27 1.04 0.81 1.32
School fees (referent=low)
 Middle 0.60 0.35 1.03 0.45* 0.25 0.79
 High 0.58 0.20 1.67 0.67 0.20 2.20
Community-level vendor compliance (referent=low)
 Low-middle 0.57 0.27 1.20 0.58 0.28 1.18
 Middle-high 0.80 0.43 1.51 0.65 0.32 1.33
 High 0.48* 0.25 0.94 0.40** 0.21 0.77

Due to unstable estimates resulting from a low sample size of current tobacco smokers, the outcome of current tobacco smoking was not included. Models were further adjusted for number of tobacco vendors and number of tobacco ads.

*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01,

***

p<0.001.