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Due to the addictive nature of nicotine, adolescents who experiment with smoking are at high risk to develop a regular smoking pattern and to continue smoking in adulthood. This thesis examined the factors contributing to smoking inititation among adolescents. The method employed in this study was a systematic literature review.
conducted two Focus Group Discussions divided to smokers and nonsmokers. the 2007 Global Youth Tobacco Survey estimates that there are 17% or 4 million Filipino youths with ages 13-15 years who are smoking.
smokers differ on attitudinal variables such as health-related attitudes, smoker identity attitudes, smoking secrecy, smoker image, and perceived feelings of stigma. Participants included 876 students smokers between the ages of 18 and 24 enrolled at a four-year
Youth smoking is an important aspect of tobacco research as most adult smokers first experiment with and initiate tobacco use during their adolescence. Policy makers and researchers have given youth smoking issues a significant amount of attention over the last 20 years and this has led
This study investigates the use of tobacco by young people. It compares the personal characteristics of adolescent smokers and non-smokers as well as their social context. The principal hypothesis is that young smokers tend to be marginalized from their home or school environments.
1 cze 2002 · To effectively address this important teenage and adult health issue, critical research information and early interventions are needed, yet conducting tobacco research with teen smokers poses substantial challenges, including several ethical dilemmas.
3 mar 2023 · Examples of indirect influence were confined to an unspoken pressure to smoke due to perceptions of smoking as the norm, with perceived high prevalence and positive attitudes towards smoking among friends.
