OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of primary health care teams in maintaining a group of young people aged 10--15 years as non-smokers. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial using postal questionnaires. SETTING Oxfordshire, UK. SUBJECTS 2942 young people who were initially self declared non-smokers. INTERVENTION Information about smoking, sent under signature of the subject's genera...

The health risks associated with second hand smoke (SHS) are well-known. However, little is known about exposure to SHS in cars and risk of smoking uptake. This paper investigates the association between pre-adolescents reported exposure to smoking in cars and prevalence of early stage smoking activity. Data from Keeping Kids Smokefree baseline surveys of students were used to investigate smoki...

OBJECTIVE To compare the perceptions of youth in grades 5 to 9 and parents regarding their household environment relevant to smoking socialization. METHODS We conducted secondary analysis of the 2004/05 Canadian Youth Smoking Survey and corresponding parent survey, and used the McNemar Test to compare youth and parent responses. RESULTS Results showed statistically significant patterns of d...

AIMS We used epidemiological modelling to assess whether nicotine vaccines would be a cost-effective way of preventing smoking uptake in adolescents. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS AND MEASUREMENTS We built an epidemiological model using Australian data on age-specific smoking prevalence; smoking cessation and relapse rates; life-time sex-specific disability-adjusted life years lived for cohor...

BACKGROUND Existing evidence has shown that most smoking uptake and escalation occurs while smokers are teenagers or young adults. Effective policies that reduce smoking uptake and escalation will play an important role in curbing cigarette smoking. This study aims to investigate the effect of smoke-free air (SFA) laws in bars on smoking initiation/relapse while controlling for other confounder...

An increasing body of research indicates that the attractive portrayal of smoking in movies is a factor in the uptake of smoking by young people. Indeed, a recent study by Sargent et al suggests that in the United States, exposure to movie smoking is the primary independent risk factor for smoking initiation in adolescents aged 10 to 14 years, accounting for smoking initiation in more than one ...

Background. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between receptivity to cigarette promotions and smoking uptake in a cohort of adolescents. Methods and Measures. This was a prospective cohort study of 480 4thto 11th-grade students conducted in three rural Vermont K–12 schools. Cigarette use was determined by self-report at baseline, 12 months (survey 2), and 21 months (surv...