Table 4

Associations of factors related to advertisements for smoking with current smoking among adolescents in Kurdistan, Iraq, 2006

Demographic factor
OR (95% CI)

Frequency of seeing actors smoke when watching television, videos or movies

A lot
1.14 (1.11,1.17)
Sometimes
1.01 (0.98,1.04)
Never watched
1

Frequency of tobacco advertisements seen on billboards

A lot
0.80 (0.78,0.83)
A few
1.30 (1.27,1.34)
None of them
1

Frequency of advertisements or promotions for cigarettes seen in newspapers or magazines

A lot
0.90 (0.87, 0.93)
A few
1.01 (0.99,1.04)
None of them
1

Frequency of advertisements or promotions for cigarettes seen at recreational events

A lot
1.61 (1.57,1.66)
Sometimes
0.94 (0.91, 0.96)
Never watched
0.75 (0.73,0.78)
Never
1

Siziya et al. Conflict and Health 2007 1:13   doi:10.1186/1752-1505-1-13

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