Main drivers of tobacco consumption among adolescents- the case of Kyrgyzstan

Zamira Oskonbaeva ()
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Zamira Oskonbaeva: Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Department of Economics, Kyrgyzstan

Journal of Applied Microeconometrics, 2021, vol. 1, issue 1, 29-39

Abstract: Tobacco smoking among youth is a global concern. Tobacco's dangers and the probability of addiction are often underestimated by young people. Preventing tobacco consumption among youth is critical since tobacco-related illnesses will take away the lives of considerable number of young people who continue to smoke into adulthood. Youth are more vulnerable to nicotine (Goriounova and Mansvelder 2012) and may become addicted to it quicker than adults may. Even though they decide to quit in a few years, three out of four teen smokers continue to smoke into adulthood due to nicotine addiction.The main purpose of this study is to investigate the tobacco consumption of adolescents in Kyrgyzstan. For this aim, a school-based survey of students aged 13-15 years was utilized. Global Youth Tobacco Survey was conducted in 2019 by Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The questionnaire consists of 56 questions. This survey was conducted in order to get knowledge about adolescents’ attitudes about smoking.The Heckman selection model was employed for the empirical analysis. In the light of obtained results, it can be concluded that the main drivers of tobacco consumption among adolescents are age, gender, amount of spending money, parental smoking status, among others. The results indicate that tobacco consumption is higher among males. Parents’ smoking habit leads to a higher probability of an adolescent to become a smoker in the future.The outcomes from this study may provide some insights into the policies implemented to lessen smoking among adolescents not only for Kyrgyzstan but also for other countrie

Keywords: Tobacco Consumption; Heckman Selection Model; Kyrgyzstan; Survey; Adolescents; Cross Section Data; Microeconometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 C52 C81 C83 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.53753/jame.1.1.03

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