ArticleJournal of global health2023
Cannabis and tobacco use among adolescents aged 12-17 years from 16 low- and middle-income countries.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Tobacco smoking in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Drug and alcohol review · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions targeting adolescent substance use and misuse in South Asian Countries: A systematic review.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Pooled it
- Cannabis use among Arab students: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Behavioral and social pathways of adolescent drug use in Indonesia: implications for community-based prevention.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Prevalence and socio-ecological correlates of adolescent alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use in the Turks and Caicos Islands.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Trends in lifetime controlled drug use and associated risk factors among Japanese Junior High School Students: Findings from Nationwide Surveys, 2016-2024.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
- Prevalence, drug education, and other associated factors of current illicit drug use among a nationally representative sample of school-aged adolescents in the Philippines in 2019.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2025Article
- Global, Regional, and National Burden of Smoking-Related Diseases and Associations With Health Workforce Distribution, 1990-2021: Analysis From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.International journal of public health · 2025Article
- Associations Between Major Depressive Episodes, Sociodemographic Factors, and Past-Year Marijuana Use Among U.S. Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nigerian medical journal : journal of the Nigeria Medical AssociationReview
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Abstract
Background: We aimed to examine the association between cannabis use and tobacco use in 12-17-year-old adolescents residing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Methods: We used data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey collected between 2012 and 2022. We selected 16 LMICs based on pre-defined inclusion criteria and compared the prevalence of cannabis use for female and for male adolescents for each country. We estimated age- and sex-standardised distributions of tobacco use, school truancy, suicide attempt, sex with multiple partners, physical fighting, perceived school kindness, and parental monitoring were estimated. We used multivariable logistic regression to estimate odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) measuring associations between cannabis use and other variables. We generated pooled estimates through random effects meta-analyses. Results: The overall pooled prevalence of cannabis use was 4.3% (95% CI = 3.2-5.9), with significant between-country heterogeneities (I Conclusions: There is a need for comprehensive preventive measures targeting multiple risk behaviours associated with cannabis use for adolescents in LMICs.
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