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Parental smoking of study participants was assessed using the following questions: For children: Does your child's mother (or female guardian) smoke cigarettes?
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The distributions of age, sex, and smoking status of study subjects are shown in Table 1.
Table 1 shows demographic characteristics and cigarette smoking history of study participants.
Furthermore, since many of the studies were retrospective cohort studies, they usually did not have access to complete lifetime smoking histories of study subjects.
The representativeness of the study population was assessed by comparing the sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics (i.e., age, marital status, education, and smoking) of the study population to the general birthing population in the corresponding country.
Four former smokers at baseline (two in each community) had started smoking at end of study.
Epidemiological studies usually aim to identify and adjust for confounding variables such as smoking and age of study participants.
Most individuals reported never smoking, but 7.3% of study participants stated that they were former smokers, and 15.8% stated that they were current smokers.
Patients who were smoking at the time of study or had stopped smoking during the last 12 months prior to the study were defined as current smokers.
At all visits after baseline, smoking status and use of study treatment (gum or tablets) was checked.
Further research will be needed to determine whether vaping truly increases the risk of smoking, the study authors said.
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