Author Details Predictors of cigarette smoking among adolescents in rural Zambia: results from a cross sectional study from Chongwe district Seter Siziya1 PhD, Associate professor, ssiziya@yahoo.com Emmanuel Rudatsikira2 MD, Assistant professor, erudatsikira@llu.edu Adamson Muula3 MPH, Lecturer, muula@email.unc.edu Pierson Ntata 4 PhD, Lecturer, pntata@chanco.unima.mw 1 University of Zambia, Department of Community Medicine, Lusaka, Zambia. 2 School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA. 3 University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi. 4 Department of Sociology, University of Malawi, Chancellor College, Zomba, Malawi. Correspondence: A Muula, University of Malawi, Private Bag 360, Blantyre 3, Malawi  Author contribution: Seter Siziya: original concept, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts, contributed to drafts. Emmanuel Rudatsikira: statistical analysis. Adamson S Muula: original concept, literature review, supplied data, wrote the first draft. Citation: Siziya S, Rudatsikira E, Muula AS, Ntata PRT.  Predictors of cigarette smoking among adolescents in rural Zambia: results from a cross sectional study from Chongwe district. Rural and Remote Health 7: 728. (Online) 2007. Available: http://www.rrh.org.au Received: 10 February 2007 Revised: 12 June 2007 Accepted: 27 September 2007