Background: No long-term impact has yet been observed with the use of the social-
influences approach to school-based smoking prevention for youth. However, whether this …

This study examines the association between acculturation and subsequent binge drinking
among Asian American adolescents and investigates the mediating effect of friends' alcohol …

OBJECTIVE To identify one-year predictors of smoking initiation among never-smokers, and
of continued smoking among ever-smokers. DESIGN Two sequential cohorts of grade 4 and …

Although the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adolescents and adults consistently
declined in the past decade, smoking among college students rose sharply. To reduce the …

The impact of adolescent smoking cessation clinics has been disappointing due to low
participation rates, high attrition, and low quit rates. This paper describes two computerized …

The aim of this study was to explain the effects of anti-smoking parenting practices on
adolescent smoking cognitions and behavior by showing the mediating effects of cognitions …

This paper suggests that there is a need, as early as Reception, to implement smoking
intervention programmes in the local school curriculum. Findings from a cross-sectional …

Background. Smoking prevention programs usually run during school hours. In our study, an
out-of-school program was developed consisting of a computer-tailored intervention aimed …

Introduction It is not expected that those who did not smoke during their adolescent years
will start to smoke later in life. This study was planned to learn the thoughts of Turkish …

Nonadherence to accepted design principles for randomized trials has been a limitation of
school-based intervention research. Designed to overcome these limitations, the Hutchinson …