Observational studyDrug and alcohol dependence2017
Body mass index, body dissatisfaction and adolescent smoking initiation.
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- Associations of lifestyle and biological factors with body image among reproductive-aged women: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Comorbidity between body dissatisfaction and nicotine vaping among young adults in college: a daily diary study.Journal of American college health : J of ACH · 2025Article
- Assessment of Factors Associated with Misperception of Body Weight and Body Weight Modifications Intentions Among Adults from Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Tobacco smoking and the risk of eating behaviors and depression among Palestinian female university students.Discover mental health · 2025Article
- The role of body image dissatisfaction in the relationship between body size and disordered eating and self-harm: complimentary Mendelian randomization and mediation analyses.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Article
- Smoking predicts brain atrophy in 10,134 healthy individuals and is potentially influenced by body mass index.NPJ dementia · 2025Article
- Development of the two-factor modified Kids Eating Disorder Survey (M-KEDS): a validation study with hispanic adolescents.Nutrition journal · 2024Article
- Using instruments for selection to adjust for selection bias in Mendelian randomization.Statistics in medicine · 2024Article
- Epidemiological Association of Current Smoking Status with Hypertension and Obesity among Adults Including the Elderly in Korea: Multivariate Analysis of a Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study Excluding Grades 2-3 Hypertension Cases.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2024Article
- Association Between Smoking Habits and Body Weight Among General Population in Saudi Arabia.Cureus · 2024Article
- Body image dissatisfaction is associated with perceived body weight among secondary school adolescents in Harar Town, eastern Ethiopia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- The absence of association between anorexia nervosa and smoking: converging evidence across two studies.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Disentangling the aetiological pathways between body mass index and site-specific cancer risk using tissue-partitioned Mendelian randomisation.British journal of cancer · 2023Article
- Examining pathways between genetic liability for schizophrenia and patterns of tobacco and cannabis use in adolescence.Psychological medicine · 2022Article
- Self-Perceptions, Normative Beliefs, and Substance Use Associated With High School Girls Comparing Themselves to Peers.The Journal of school health · 2021Article
- Testing the association between tobacco and cannabis use and cognitive functioning: Findings from an observational and Mendelian randomization study.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
- Body esteem, weight-control outcome expectancies, and e-cigarette use among young adults.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021Article
- Body image perception, smoking, alcohol use, indoor tanning, and disordered eating in young and middle-aged adults: findings from a large population-based Swedish study.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Predictors of Nutritional Status, Depression, Internet Addiction, Facebook Addiction, and Tobacco Smoking Among Women With Eating Disorders in Spain.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Young adult e-cigarette users: perceptions of stress, body image, and weight control.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundSmoking influences body weight, but there is little evidence as to whether body mass index (BMI) and body dissatisfaction increase smoking initiation in adolescents.
methodsWe evaluated the association between measured BMI, body dissatisfaction and latent classes of smoking initiation (never smokers, experimenters, late onset regular smokers, early onset regular smokers) in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. In observational analyses we used BMI (N=3754) and body dissatisfaction at age 10.5 years (N=3349). In Mendelian randomisation (MR) analysis, we used a BMI genetic risk score of 76 single nucleotide polymorphisms (N=4017).
resultsIn females, higher BMI was associated with increased odds of early onset regular smoking (OR: 1.11, 95% CI: 1.04, 1.18) compared to being a never smoker, but not clearly associated with experimenting with smoking (OR: 1.04, 95% CI: 0.99, 1.10) or late onset regular smoking (OR: 1.01, 95% CI: 0.94, 1.09). No clear evidence was found for associations between BMI and smoking initiation classes in males (p-value for sex interaction≤0.001). Body dissatisfaction was associated with increased odds of late-onset regular smoking (OR: 1.71, 95% CI: 1.32, 1.99) in males and females combined (P-value for sex interaction=0.32). There was no clear evidence for an association between the BMI genetic risk score and smoking latent classes in males or females but estimates were imprecise.
conclusionsBMI in females and body dissatisfaction in males and females are associated with increased odds of smoking initiation, highlighting these as potentially important factors for consideration in smoking prevention strategies.
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