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Introduction Tobacco is still one of the single most important risk factors among the lifestyle habits that cause morbidity and mortality in humans. Furthermore, tobacco has a heavy social gradient, as the consequences are even worse among disadvantaged and vulnerable groups. To reduce tobacco-related inequity in health, those most in need should b...

To gain knowledge on psychosocial characteristics that predict the propensity of participation in longitudinal studies, attrition was analysed in a cohort of 3020 adolescents participating in the baseline survey of a longitudinal study with repeated followup focusing on adolescents' tobacco use. During the followup surveys, the proportion of respon...

To determine whether symptoms of nicotine dependence, addiction and withdrawal symptoms differ between exclusive smokers, exclusive snus (moist snuff) users and dual users. A cross-sectional survey of a cohort subsample. Setting County of Stockholm, Sweden. Current exclusive smokers (n = 466), exclusive snus users (n = 209) and dual users (n = 144)...

Retrospective reports of smoking in pregnancy are of importance for clinical or scientific purposes. Careful analyses of stability and accuracy of recalled behaviour are, therefore, needed. In 1998, the mothers of 2369 pre-teens born in Sweden retrospectively reported their smoking behaviour during the first trimester of the index pregnancy. We mat...

Background Tobacco is the second major cause of death in the world and adversely affects people regardless of race, gender and social status. As nurses are often the first contact in the line of care, they hold a key position in influencing health outcomes of patients. In Sweden today, those smoking in the highest numbers are hard-to-reach marginal...

To validate self reports of cigarette and smokeless tobacco (snus) use in a prospective cohort of adolescents. A cross sectional analysis of a cohort sub-sample. County of Stockholm, Sweden. 520 adolescents in the final grade of junior high school (mean age 15.0 years). Concordance between self reported tobacco use and saliva cotinine concentration...

School-based recruitment of youth for a research purpose is problematic, as one has to deal with multiple ethical and practical constraints. This study reports on predictors of schools' and families' participation in a longitudinal study of tobacco use among 11-year-old children. School size, but not tobacco policy, was linked to participation. Hig...

In Sweden, the prevalence of tobacco use in the youth population differs by product and gender, but there are no longitudinal studies of gender differences in the uptake of smoking and use of oral snuff (OS). A prospective cohort study ongoing in the County of Stockholm, encompassing 3,019 children recruited in 1997 in the fifth grade of compulsory...