Our previous research indicated that Latino parents, more so than non-Latinos, may prompt their children to engage in behaviors that may encourage them to "practice" smoking-related behaviors. This multi-phase study examines youth and parent reports of parental prompting, defined as asking the child to: (a) empty/clean ashtrays, (b) bring cigarettes to parent, (c) receive tobacco industry promotional gear, (d) buy cigarettes for parent, (d) light parent's cigarette, (e) start the cigarette in his/her own mouth and then pass it to parent, and (f) smoke with the parent. For the youth study 3624 7th and 8th grade middle school students completed surveys. Cross-sectional findings indicated that four parental prompts were predictive of youth smoking; that parental prompting was predictive of children's smoking independently of parental smoking; that parental prompting was associated with a higher prevalence of youth smoking regardless of ethnicity; and that a higher familism score was significantly associated with a lower risk of past-month smoking, regardless of ethnicity. Approximately 300 smoking parents who participated in this study were surveyed to identify parent-reported factors associated with parental prompting behaviors. Potential determinants included parent sex, parent smoking frequency, parent attitudes about child smoking, child sex, parent knowledge of tobacco effects, parent exposure to antismoking information, and acculturation. About 30% of parents reported having prompted their children with at least one of the prompts. This paper will present parent surveys findings. In addition, initial comparisons will be made between parent and child reports of parental prompting and parent cigarette use.
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Keywords: Adolescents, Tobacco
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