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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Youth--Tobacco use."”.
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Econometric analysis of youth tobacco use: evidence from Lesotho global youth tobacco surveys
This dissertation estimates the prevalence of youth smoking and investigates the determinants of different tobacco products by gender among the youth aged 11 – 17+ years in Lesotho. This is achieved by estimating three independent gender logit regressions using Lesotho Global Youth Tobacco Surveys …
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The influence of tobacco merchant education and enforcement activities on the rate of tobacco use among youth in Louisiana
… a relationship exists between the self-reported tobacco use by secondary students in Louisiana and the tobacco sale rate to persons under the age of 18 in those parishes; and 2) to investigate the relationship between merchant education in a parish and the parish tobacco sale rate to persons …
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Advancing Global Tobacco Control: Exploring Worldwide Youth Attitudes and Behaviors toward Tobacco Use and Control
<p>Tobacco use continues to be the leading cause of preventable death in the world. The disproportionate increase in tobacco use in low- and middle-income countries needs immediate attention. Many smokers begin smoking as adolescents and are most likely to become permanent smokers. Moreover, youth …
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A Descriptive Analysis of the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation Elementary Compendium Programs in Relation to Tobacco Prevention
… programs are effective in the prevention of youth tobacco use based on evaluations provided by the VTSF. In the years (2003-2005), tobacco use trends among middle and high school students in Virginia started moving upward despite the fact that the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation (VTSF) …
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The influence of familial smoking behaviours on adolescent smoking behaviours
… who are at risk for becoming smokers may prove useful in developing effective smoking prevention programs. The purpose of this stUdy was to assess the importance of familial smoking behaviours on adolescent smoking patterns. The results were based on responses to The Grade 7 Lincoln County …
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Students' knowledge about tobacco one year after receiving the PAL smoking prevention program
… to provide educational studies related to tobacco use prevention. Even given this fact, there has been an increase in smoking behaviQurs at an earlier age and in females in particular. Smoking prevention progralns must use the most effective means to assist students to obtain the knowledge …
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The impact of tobacco control policies on university students' smoking in Ontario
… Despite steady declines in the prevalence of tobacco use among Canadians, young adult tobacco use has remained stubbornly high over the past two decades (CTUMS, 2005a). Currently in Ontario, young adults have the highest proportion of smokers of all age cohorts at 26%. A growing body of …
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The Relative Effectiveness of Two Different Approaches of Teaching Smoking Education
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The Adolescent Smoking Prevention Project: A Web-Based Smoking Prevention for Adolescents
… to try a cigarette if offered and to refuse an offer of a cigarette. Furthermore, both negative social impressions and negative affect reduction expectancies significantly predicted participants’ willingness to leave the situation if offered a cigarette. Gender, resistance self-efficacy …
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Extra-curricular activity participation, connectedness to school and cigarette and alcohol use : how the relationships work
… to test if a reduction in smoking and alcohol use occurred amongst students who participated in ECA compared to non-participants. Three sub-studies were conducted to explore the research concepts. First, student and school-level characteristics associated with students‟ ECA participation in …