Introduction Evidence suggests that in convenience stores across the United States (US),
sales of e-cigarettes (EC) continue to grow, indicating their rising popularity. ECs have been …

Social media has become an integral part of young people's lives. While its effects on
students' academic performance are extensively studied in the literature, there is still a lack …

A conducive school climate is one of the conditions that students must have to display
positive academic performance. However, juvenile delinquency often results in student …

Background Although there is evidence for socioeconomic inequalities in health and health
behaviour in adolescents, different indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) have rarely …

Background Whilst prevalence of youth smoking in middle and high income countries has
decreased, inequality has prevailed. The introduction of legislation regulating tobacco use in …

This paper applies social network analysis in two experiments. In the first experiment, social
network analysis is conducted on student friendship networks to find relational patterns …

Aim: We studied how multigenerational socioeconomic circumstances influence
adolescents' smoking. Previous studies have shown that low academic achievement as well …

Tobacco, alcohol and cannabis are psychoactive substances that is often tried for the first
time during adolescence and further continued in later life. Regular tobacco and cannabis …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND The origin of inequalities in health outcomes has been
explained by health selection and social causation models. Health selection processes …

The increasing denormalization of smoking by tobacco control policies and a normative
smoke-free climate may shift power towards adolescent non-smokers. It is unclear, however …