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Primary prevention, smoking, and smoking cessation
Cancer, 2000Cigarette smoking is the major cause of lung cancer, and most lung cancers have historically occurred among current cigarette smokers or recent quitters. The relative risk of developing lung cancer declines in former smokers to approximately twice that of never smokers after 20 years of cessation, but it remains elevated indefinitely.
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Making Smoking Prevention a Reality
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1991Since the inception of the antitobacco movement in the late 1950s, national, state, and local public health campaigns have delayed an estimated three quarters of a million deaths from tobacco-related disease. 1 Although many lives have been saved, one in every five deaths in 1988 was smoking-related, and smoking directly caused 434 000 deaths in 1988 ...
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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 ...
S P, Schinke, L D, Gilchrist
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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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Smoking prevention: Obstacles and possibilities
Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology, 2008A brief overview is given of the disastrous effects of tobacco smoking on health, the environment and the economy. Obstacles for prevention are exemplified by the strong addictive property of nicotine, the ruthlessness and greed of the tobacco industry, and the ambivalence still demonstrated by the political and the health professional community in the
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