Use of snus, its association with smoking and alcohol consumption, and related attitudes among adolescents: the Finnish National School Health Promotion Study

Table 1 Adolescent- and parent-related variables by off-springs’ school type (N = 183,226)

	Comprehensive		Upp. secondary		Vocational		All
	(n = 99,597)		(n = 46,644)		(n = 36,985)		All
	Boys %	Girls %	Boys %	Girls %	Boys %	Girls %	Boys %	Girls %	All %
Snus use
Daily	3	<1	6	<1	5	<1	4	<1	2
Sometimes	12	2	14	3	21	4	12	2	7
Tried once	10	7	10	9	12	13	10	8	9
Not at all	75	91	70	88	62	83	74	90	82
p-value	<0.001		<0.001		<0.001		<0.001
Smoking
Daily	16	13	10	11	40	40	20	17	19
Weekly	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Less than weekly	7	10	12	15	7	9	9	11	10
Not currently	15	13	16	15	15	16	15	14	15
Not at all	58	59	57	54	33	30	51	52	51
p-value	<0.001		<0.001		<0.001		<0.001
Alcohol use
Weekly or more	8	6	14	9	25	18	13	9	11
Twice monthly	16	17	29	30	31	33	22	23	23
Once monthly	10	12	14	18	13	15	12	14	13
Less than monthly	22	23	18	21	15	19	20	22	21
Not at all	44	42	25	22	16	15	33	32	32
p-value	<0.001		<0.001		<0.001		<0.001
Attitude towards smoking
Yes, I accept smoking	65	65	74	71	82	84	71	70	71
Else^a	35	35	26	29	18	16	29	30	29
p-value	0.027		<0.001		<0.001		<0.001
Attitude towards alcohol use
Yes, I accept the use	70	56	80	63	78	65	74	60	67
Else^b	30	44	20	37	22	35	26	40	33
p-value	<0.001		<0.001		<0.001		<0.001
Parental smoking
Yes^a	35	37	24	28	43	48	35	36	35
No	65	63	76	72	57	52	65	64	65
p-value	<0.001		<0.001		<0.001		<0.001
Parental education^c
Primary or secondary	59	63	46	52	74	80	60	63	61
Higher education	41	37	54	48	26	20	40	37	39
p-value	<0.001		<0.001		<0.001		<0.001

Adolescent-related variables: adolescents’ snus use, smoking and alcohol consumption as well as attitudes towards smoking and alcohol; parent-related variables: parental smoking and education; School type: CS comprehensive school, USS upper secondary school, VS vocational school; Statistical evaluation was done by chi-square test
^aAt least one of the parents smoked
^bElse: answer included options: I don’t accept or I don’t know
^cThe highest educational level at least one of the parents completed (Primary or secondary level included CS, USS, VS; Higher level included: vocational degree or university or polytechnics)

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