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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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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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Skills Methods to Prevent Smoking
Health Education Quarterly, 1986School health educators have devoted much attention to cigarette smoking. Recent years have seen the testing of interventions to prevent smoking. To date, controlled studies have not evaluated the added value of skills methods for preventing smoking. This article describes such an evaluation with sixth-grade students from two schools.
Robert F. Schilling +4 more
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Seven-year follow-up of a smoking-prevention program for children.
Australian Journal of Public Health, 2010Smoking-prevention programs, run by both teachers, and teachers and peers, have been introduced into school curricula in many parts of the world. This paper describes a long-term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial of a smoking education program ...
R. Shean +3 more
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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: 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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Preventing Smoking in Multiethnic Communities
American Journal of Health Behavior, 2001To examine community-based efforts to prevent tobacco use among adolescents, compared and contrasted to efforts conducted in schools.Review effective school-based prevention efforts including the Surgeon General's research reports describing broader based community approaches.By reducing illegal sales, making it physically more difficult to purchase ...
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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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Cervical cancer prevention and control in women living with human immunodeficiency virus
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2021Philip E Castle +2 more
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