OBJECTIVE To examine the effectiveness of a drug abuse prevention program in reducing the initiation and escalation of smoking in a sample of predominantly minority junior high school girls. METHODS The 15-session prevention program teaches social resistance skills within the context of a broader intervention designed to promote general personal and social competence skills, and is implemente...

ON SEPTEMBER 17, 1984, the Minnesota Department of Health released "The Minnesota Plan for Nonsmoking and Health: Report and Recommendations of the Technical Advisory Committee on Nonsmoking and Health". 1 The report contains recommendations for reducing mortality, morbidity, and costs by promoting nonsmoking in Minnesota, encouraging smoking cessation among current smokers, facilitating primar...

Tobacco control is one of the effective means of cancer prevention. Overall prevalence trend of smoking in Thailand has decreased over time which is partly due to tobacco control policy in the country (Levy et al., 2008; Sangthong et al., 2011). This change of smoking trend can also be affected by age structure and birth cohort but they have never been examined in Thailand. Age-period-cohort an...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to examine the prevalence of smoking and the smoking habits among male secondary school students in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to assess their knowledge and attitudes towards smoking. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in Jeddah, using a two-stage cluster sample that randomly selected four schools from 85 public secondary schools for mal...

BACKGROUND Assessment of implementation is essential for the evaluation of school-based preventive activities. Interventions are more easily implemented in schools if detailed instructional manuals, lesson plans, and materials are provided; however, implementation may also be affected by other factors than the intervention itself-for example, school-level characteristics, such as principal supp...

BACKGROUND Smoking is one of the largest contributors to the global burden of disease. Internet interventions have been shown to reduce smoking rates successfully. However, improved methods of evaluating effectiveness need to be developed for large-scale Internet intervention trials. OBJECTIVE To illustrate a method to interpret outcomes of large-scale, fully automated, worldwide Internet int...

BACKGROUND The present qualitative study assessed the need, acceptability and appropriateness for implementing effective and culturally appropriate smoking prevention programs for adolescents in schools in Indonesia. METHODS Snowball sampling was used to recruit participants. The study sample comprised a mixture of staff in the education department, junior high school teachers and individuals...