TY - JOUR T1 - Tobacco false attributions in smokers and not smokers teenagers JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J VL - 40 IS - Suppl 56 SP - P4056 AU - Khalil Abu Shams AU - Maria Hernandez AU - Mercedes De Carlos AU - Amaia Iridoy AU - Susana Clemos AU - Amaya Villanueva Y1 - 2012/09/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/40/Suppl_56/P4056.abstract N2 - Introduction: The tobacco is now a widespread habit among the teenagers where thy begin early to smoke. The false attribution have an important role to push the adolescents to take the decision to begin early to smoke.i.e. to think that they are more attractive, modern, adult and more independent.Methods: a representative sample of teenagers of our community offering a questionaire that include the false attributions with two answers: true or not true.The sample was of 350 students, 180 girls and 170 boys between12-18 years. The values of the correct answers is between 0 and 10 points analyzing the results with Kruskal Wallis test.Results: 193 students (55.14%) smoke and 157 (44.86%) not smoke. We found significant differences of false attributions between smokers and not smokers.The smokers have most of false attributions about smoke habit having less scoring in the questionary (H:6.45, gl:1, p: 0.011).View this table:Table 1Conclusions: The smoke teenagers have more false attributions than not smokers. ER -