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A doctoral dissertation at the University of Murcia has compared the alcohol and snuff in Spanish and Mexican adolescents, a study that has shown a higher prevalence among the Spanish when consuming addictive substances.
The author, Jorge Ricardo Ruiz-Abad Laughing has identified risk factors that can facilitate and encourage consumption among adolescents, for what he has done a questionnaire on physical habits sport, alcohol and snuff and influence of the environment 3249 family and 1,083 Mexican Spanish students aged 12 to 16 years.
The study, which has obtained excellent cum laude, shows that age is a risk factor, so that the probability of consuming both alcohol and snuff increases as the age of the subjects is greater.
In Spain the girls drink alcohol and smoke more often than boys, however, they do so promptly but in larger quantities.
By contrast, in Mexico, teenagers consume alcohol more regularly than girls, although no significant differences in terms of quantity.
Physical and sports practice, according to the thesis, it acts as a protective agent against addiction in Spanish students, unlike what happens in Mexico, where this phenomenon is not significant.
Regarding the purchase of unhealthy habits, siblings and parents, both Spanish and Mexicans, are the family members exert more influence.
The dissertation was supervised by Professor Francisco Ruiz Juan.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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