Prevalence and predictors of adolescents’ cigarette smoking in Madinah, Saudi Arabia: a school-based cross-sectional study

Table 1 Current prevalence of adolescents' cigarette smoking by their sociodemographic characteristics in Madinah, Saudi Arabia

Characteristics	Smokers (n = 504)		Non-smokers (n = 2818)		P value
	No.	%*	No.	%*
Age group in years
≤13	65	12.4	461	87.6	<.0001**
14-	45	9.4	434	90.6
15-	77	13.3	506	86.2
≥16	317	18.3	1417	81.5
Sex
Female	129	8.3	1430	91.7	<.0001**
Male	375	21.3	1388	78.7	<.0001**
School level
Intermediate	217	13.9	1344	86.1	0.04**
Secondary	287	16.3	1474	83.7	0.04**
School status
Public	438	14.9	2504	85.1	0.20
Private	66	17.4	314	82.6	0.20
Pocket money per month
≤300 SR	425	14.3	2558	85.6	0.001**
>300 SR	79	23.3	260	76.7	0.001**
Father education
Illiterate	62	24.2	194	75.8	0.0001**
Less than university	277	15.0	1573	85.0
University and higher	165	13.5	1051	86.5
Mother education
Illiterate	76	24.0	240	76.0	0.001**
Less than university	276	13.3	1794	86.7
University and higher	152	16.2	784	83.8

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