- Adolescents with tattoos are much more likely than other
teenagers to be involved with drugs, alcohol or even gang violence, an
American study has disclosed.
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- A tattoo provides a 'visible cue' that a teenager might
get involved in such behaviour, scientists at the University of Rochester
in New York State said. The link, which emerged from a study of
6,072 people
aged between 11 and 21 from across the US, remained after results were
adjusted for socio-economic factors, gender, age and peer-group
pressure.
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- Timothy Roberts, a paediatrician at the University of
Rochester Children,Äôs Hospital who led the study, reported
the results at the annual conference of the American Academy of Paediatrics
in Baltimore, Maryland, yesterday.
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- ,ÄúA tattoo is a sign that doctors, parents,
teachers ought to be asking about the teenager 'behaviour' he said. It
would, however, be wrong to suggest that it increases the chances
of irresponsible
behaviour or to use it as a basis of discrimination, he added.
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- Tattooed teenagers were almost four times as likely as
their peers to have had sex, 2.7 times as likely to be gang members, and
about twice as likely to abuse drugs, alcohol or cigarettes, or to have
taken part in a recent fight.
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