Why the study?
The adverse effects of multiple health risk factors are well documented, but the effects of early smoking in the context of multiple health risk factors remain understudied.
Does early smoking initiation increase the likelihood of having additional health risk factors in US adult smokers?
Does early smoking initiation increase the likelihood of having additional health risk factors in US adult smokers?
Early smoking initiation before age 15 is associated with a significantly higher likelihood of engaging in additional health risk factors such as heavy drinking, physical inactivity, and obesity in adulthood.
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Early smoking initiation was associated with more risk factors; hypothesis-generating for prevention timing in observational data.
Choi et al. (2022) studied this question.
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