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Adolescent Smoking: Onset and Prevention
Pediatrics, 1979Despite the systemic and conceptual barriers to effective preventive actions, some progress is beginning to be made in preventing adoption of self-destructive behaviors during adolescence. Application of the concept of psychological inoculation against social environmental factors that influence young people to adopt unhealthy life-styles is showing ...
Cheryl L. Perry +2 more
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Smoking cessation in cancer prevention
Toxicology, 2001Tobacco smoking is the largest preventable risk factor for morbidity and mortality in industrialized countries. WHO estimates that tobacco will become the largest single health problem by 2020, causing an estimated 8.4 million deaths annually. Tobacco has central importance in the etiology of cancers of the lung, head and neck, urinary tract, and ...
Paul Kleihues +2 more
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Smoking Prevention in the Communities
2013The goal of this chapter is to synthesize available data on incidence and prevalence of smoking at school. Summarily, this chapter offers an overview of the actual trend of smoking habits among adolescents.
Giuseppe La Torre, Flavia Kheiraoui
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Legislation and Smoking Prevention
2015Legislation has been at the forefront of public health since Victorian times. With the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the WHO established that legislation is the most powerful means of combating the tobacco epidemic. In this chapter, we explore why legislation is necessary and effective for reducing tobacco consumption and the ...
Ehsan Latif, Valerie Warner
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Preventing cigarette smoking with youth
The Journal of Primary Prevention, 1984A repeated measures, control group design compared skills-building with attitude modification approaches to prevent cigarette smoking of 234 sixth graders. Subjects in a skills-building condition, more than those in an attitude modification condition or in a control condition, had better posttest scores on cognitive and interpersonal precursors of ...
Lewayne D. Gilchrist, Steven P. Schinke
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Smoking Prevention and Cessation
1998The most important etiological factor in the development of lung cancer is smoking, which accounts for approximately 80 to 85% of all lung cancer cases. Tobacco use is also a major contributor to the incidence of chronic respiratory disease (80 to 90%) and myocardial infarction (23 to 40%) [1] and has been strongly correlated with other cancers (e.g ...
Philip Tønnesen +3 more
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Primary Prevention of Tobacco Smoking
Journal of School Health, 1983ABSTRACTSixth‐grade students (N = 56) were assigned randomly to one of four experimental conditions: pretest and primary prevention; primary prevention; pretest; and neither pretest nor primary prevention. In eight group sessions, primary prevention students learned facts, problem solving, decision making, self‐instructions and interpersonal skills to ...
Steven P. Schinke, Lewayne D. Gilchrist
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Smoking Cessation and Prevention
1995Tobacco smoking is the major cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), its contribution to COPD morbidity and mortality far outweighing all other factors [1]. The closeness of the association between smoking and lung disease was perhaps best shown in the study of Auerbach and colleagues [2] which found at autopsy that while almost all (94 ...
J. Foulds, M. J. Jarvis
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2008
Patterns of smoking in families and social pressure from peers have been considered as the principal determinants of the uptake of smoking by teenagers. Thus the chief focus of much of the health promotion effort to produce a new, smoke-free generation has been to equip adolescents with detailed knowledge about the dangers of smoking and skills to ...
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Patterns of smoking in families and social pressure from peers have been considered as the principal determinants of the uptake of smoking by teenagers. Thus the chief focus of much of the health promotion effort to produce a new, smoke-free generation has been to equip adolescents with detailed knowledge about the dangers of smoking and skills to ...
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The role of the pediatrician in smoking prevention
Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 1997Smoking prevention during childhood and adolescence is critical to the successful reduction of tobacco-related morbidity and mortality in the United States. The research literature is replete with surveys describing youth smoking acquisition and related factors. In addition to its direct harm, tobacco use may be a gateway to other substance abuse and a
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