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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1979
To the Editor.— In a recent COMMENTARY by Richard V. Ebert, MD (240:2159, 1978), he urges physicians to try to reduce the grim toll of lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema by encouraging their smoking patients to abstain from cigarettes. He suggests that this approach may be more productive than trying to induce young people to avoid the ...
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To the Editor.— In a recent COMMENTARY by Richard V. Ebert, MD (240:2159, 1978), he urges physicians to try to reduce the grim toll of lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema by encouraging their smoking patients to abstain from cigarettes. He suggests that this approach may be more productive than trying to induce young people to avoid the ...
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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 ...
A L, McAlister, C, Perry, N, Maccoby
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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 ...
H, Vainio, E, Weiderpass, P, Kleihues
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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 ...
S P, Schinke, L D, Gilchrist
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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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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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Pediatrics, 1968
In the Newsletter of January 1, 1968, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported that the executive board strongly endorsed time American Cancer Society's anti-smoking resolution. Personally, I cannot agree with the approach of the resolution to the public health hazard of smoking.
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In the Newsletter of January 1, 1968, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported that the executive board strongly endorsed time American Cancer Society's anti-smoking resolution. Personally, I cannot agree with the approach of the resolution to the public health hazard of smoking.
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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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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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Smoking Prevention in China: A Content Analysis of an Anti-Smoking Social Media Campaign
Journal of health communication, 2016Shaohai Jiang, Christopher E. Beaudoin
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