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WHERE THERE IS SMOKE THERE IS FIRE: EARLY CHILDHOOD HOUSEHOLD SMOKE EXPOSURE IS PROSPECTIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR AT AGE 12

Linda S. Pagani1*
  • 1 Unversité de Montréal, School of Psycho-Education, Canada

Young children exert little control over household tobacco smoke exposure, considered a developmental neurotoxicant. Using data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development 1997-1998 birth cohort, we examine prospective associations between early childhood smoke exposure and later antisocial behavior in sixth grade. Parents of 1035 children reported on the presence of household smokers at seven annual follow-ups from ages 1.5 to 7.5. Self-reported outcome measures included conduct problems, proactive and reactive aggression, school indiscipline, and dropout risk at age 12. After adjusting for potential family and individual confounders, increases of one standard deviation of exposure to household tobacco smoke forecasted a 19% standard deviation unit increase in conduct problems (unstandardized β = 0.07; 95% confidence interval [CI] from 0.04 to 0.09), a 11% standard deviation unit increase in proactive aggression (unstandardized β = 0.04; 95% CI from 0.01 to 0.07), a 13% standard deviation unit increase in reactive aggression (unstandardized β = 0.07; 95% CI from 0.03 to 0.12), a 13% standard deviation unit increase in school indiscipline (unstandardized β = 0.13; 95% CI from 0.05 to 0.20), and a 10% standard deviation unit increase in dropout risk (unstandardized β = 0.07; 95% CI from 0.01 to 0.12). Youngsters growing up in homes characterized to some degree by secondhand smoke showed modest yet reliable risks of conduct problems, aggression, school indiscipline, and dropout risk at age 12. These long-term findings warrant fostering parental awareness by policy makers and public health practitioners about the risks of exposure to secondhand smoke.

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1School of Psycho-Education
2Sainte-Justine’s Hospital Research Center (Brain Diseases Division)
3School Environment Research Group

Université de Montréal, Canada


Correspondence: Linda S. Pagani, École de psychoéducation, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3C 3J7. Telephone: 514-343-6111, extension 2524. (email: Linda.s.pagani@umontreal.ca, permission granted to publish this e-mail address).

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Keywords: environmental smoke, secondhand smoke, Aggression, Conduct problems, Dropout risk, childhood deviance, antisocial behavior, Tobacco smoke

Conference: SAN2016 Meeting, Corfu, Greece, 6 Oct - 9 Oct, 2016.

Presentation Type: Oral Presentation in SAN 2016 Conference

Topic: Workshop in DSM-5 clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis and bio-psycho-social treatment and follow-up of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder across the lifespan

Citation: Pagani LS (2016). WHERE THERE IS SMOKE THERE IS FIRE: EARLY CHILDHOOD HOUSEHOLD SMOKE EXPOSURE IS PROSPECTIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR AT AGE 12. Conference Abstract: SAN2016 Meeting. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2016.220.00081

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Received: 30 Jul 2016; Published Online: 01 Aug 2016.

* Correspondence: Prof. Linda S Pagani, Unversité de Montréal, School of Psycho-Education, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada, Linda.s.pagani@umontreal.ca