Tobacco and Smoking

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Adolescents With Jobs Are More Likely to Begin Smoking

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Evidence is mounting that something happens when youth start working that compels them to smoke. With this trend in mind, it's worth exploring potential strategies to prevent smoking among youth who enter the workforce.

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Substance Use Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: A Comparison of Smoking, Binge Drinking, and Marijuana Use — Jan 1, 2005

Over the past several years, there has been growing interest in identifying distinct developmental trajectories of substance use.

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Mediation Analysis of a School-Based Drug Prevention Program: Effects of Project ALERT — Jan 1, 2005

Taken together, the findings highlight an avenue for program improvement through increased impact on peer influence to use alcohol and drugs.

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Shaping Reduced Smoking in Smokers Without Cessation Plans — Jan 1, 2005

Most smokers do not plan to quit in the next 6 months.

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Concurrent Use of Alcohol and Cigarettes from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: An Examination of Developmental Trajectories and Outcomes — Jan 1, 2005

Importance of curbing smoking behavior among adolescents before it becomes habitual.

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Predictors of Attempted Quitting and Cessation Among Young Adult Smokers — Jan 1, 2005

Different risk and protective factors are relevant to understanding why smokers attempt to quit vs. why they are able to quit for 6 months or longer.

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Comparative Efficacy of Rapid-Release Nicotine Gum Versus Nicotine Polacrilex Gum in Relieving Smoking Cue-Provoked Craving — Jan 1, 2005

To examine annual hospitalization rates for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) among Medicare HMO beneficiaries.

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Primary Care Provider Attitudes are Associated With Smoking Cessation Counseling and Referral — Jan 1, 2005

Evaluates the consistency of primary care physician (PCP) attitudes toward smoking cessation counseling and their corresponding smoking-cessation behaviors; PCP attitudes were positively associated with patient-reported smoking cessation behavior.

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Visies op Financiering van Ondersteuning bij Stoppen met roken : [Perceptions on a Reimbursement Scheme for Quitting Smoking Support] — Jan 1, 2004

The Dutch Health Care Insurance Board commissioned RAND Europe to perform a qualitative review of the wishes, needs and opinions of smokers on the merits and implementation procedures for a reimbursement program to support quit smoking.

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Substance Use and Early Marriage — Jan 1, 2004

These results suggest that the link between substance use and early marriage reflects a disposition toward risky or unconventional behavior.

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Improving Contingency Management Programs for Addiction — Jan 1, 2004

Contingency management interventions effectively reduce or eliminate some individuals' problem substance use.

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Smoking-cessation Interventions By Type of Provider: A Meta-Analysis — Jan 1, 2004

To synthesize the evidence on the effectiveness of smoking-cessation interventions by type of provider.

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Developmental Trajectories of Cigarette Smoking and Their Correlates from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood — Jan 1, 2004

Smoking initiation typically occurs in adolescence and increases over time into emerging adulthood.

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Shaping Smoking Cessation Using Percentile Schedules — Jan 1, 2004

Behavioral interventions that provide incentives contingent upon abstinence are effective addiction treatments.

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Preventing Adolescent Drug Use: Long-Term Results of a Junior High Program — Jan 1, 2004

This paper reports results over a 6-year period for a multisite randomized trial that achieved reductions in drug use during the junior high school years.

Research Brief

Classroom Drug Prevention Works — Jan 1, 2004

Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs are in the nation's schools, sidetracking kids from getting a good education and from building a solid foundation for a productive, healthy life.

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The Relationship Between Cigarette Use and Other Tobacco Products: Results from the 2000 National Youth Tobacco Survey — Jan 1, 2003

This report, based on 2000 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) data, presents prevalence estimates for current use of smokeless tobacco, cigars, bidis, kreteks, and pipes among youth in the United States.

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Predictors of the Transition to Regular Smoking During Adolescence and Young Adulthood — Jan 1, 2003

To identify predictors of the transition from experimentation to regular smoking in middle adolescence, late adolescence, and young adulthood.

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Political Economy of Youth Smoking Regulation — Jan 1, 2003

This paper considers the political economy of tobacco regulation-that is, the interplay between politics and markets in tobacco regulation.

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Explaining Racial/Ethnic Differences in Smoking During the Transition to Adulthood — Jan 1, 2003

At age 23, African Americans and Asians exhibited substantially lower rates of current smoking than Whites and Hispanics.

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Social Context and Adolescent Health Behavior: Does School-Level Smoking Prevalence Affect Students' Subsequent Smoking Behavior? — Jan 1, 2003

Paper examines the links between individual adolescent smoking behavior and actual and perceived smoking behavior in the individual's school cohort.

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