Tobacco and Smoking

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Intergenerational Relationships Between the Smoking Patterns of a Population-Representative Sample of US Mothers and the Smoking Trajectories of Their Children — Apr 1, 2012

The authors assessed intergenerational transmission of smoking in mother-child dyads.

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Resisting Smoking When a Best Friend Smokes: Do Intrapersonal and Contextual Factors Matter? — Feb 29, 2012

The strong link between having a best friend who smoked and increased adolescent smoking isn't affected by individual factors such as self-esteem, depressing and access to cigarettes.

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Which Literacy Skills Are Associated with Smoking? — Feb 1, 2012

Increases in reading skills and numeracy skills substantially increase the odds that an individual will quit smoking.

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Momentary Effects of Exposure to Prosmoking Media on College Students' Future Smoking Risk — Feb 1, 2012

This study used ecological momentary assessment to examine acute changes in college students' future smoking risk as a function of their exposure to prosmoking media (e.g., smoking in movies, paid advertising, point-of-sale displays).

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Is the Intergenerational Transmission of Smoking from Mother to Child Mediated by Children's Behavior Problems? — Jan 1, 2012

In this paper, we examine the possibility that maternal smoking during pregnancy may set off a behavioral trajectory for the child that increases the likelihood of problem behaviors generally, of which smoking is one manifestation.

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Targeting Anti-Smoking Messages: Does Audience Race Matter? — Jan 1, 2012

This study examined whether an adolescent's self-identified race moderates the perceived effectiveness of anti-smoking messages.

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Romantic Attraction and Adolescent Smoking Trajectories — Nov 30, 2011

This analysis examines smoking behaviors across sexual orientation groups by describing how same- and opposite-sex romantic attraction, and changes in romantic attraction, are associated with trajectories of smoking over six years.

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Multisite Cost Analysis of a School-Based Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program — Aug 31, 2011

The large cross-school variation in the cost of implementing Project CHOICE (a voluntary after-school prevention program for adolescents) highlights the importance of collecting cost information from multiple sites.

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Within-day Temporal Patterns of Smoking, Withdrawal Symptoms, and Craving — Aug 31, 2011

Real-time data collected by palm-top computer confirms individual differences in situational smoking associations.

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Substance Use Among Middle School Students: Associations with Self-Rated and Peer-Nominated Popularity — May 31, 2011

More-popular middle school students are more likely to be cigarette smokers, drinkers, and marijuana users, as well as past-month drinkers, suggesting that popularity is a risk factor for substance abuse.

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Assessing the impacts of Revising the Tobacco Products Directive: Study to support a DG SANCO Impact Assessment — Mar 8, 2011

In order to inform the European Commission's formal Impact Assessment for a revision to the Tobacco Products Directive, this study provides an overview of evidence for tobacco product regulation and an analysis of health and economic implications.

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Economic Impact of Mexico City's Smoke-Free Law — Feb 2, 2011

There is no statistically significant evidence that the Mexico City smoke-free law had a negative impact on restaurants' income, employees' wages and levels of employment.

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A Unified Framework for Smoking Assessment: The PROMIS Smoking Initiative — Jan 16, 2011

The PROMIS Smoking Initiative has the goal of developing, evaluating, and making widely available a set of items for assessing smoking behavior and the biopsychosocial constructs that can be used to predict smoking outcomes.

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Motives for Smoking in Movies Affect Future Smoking Risk in Middle School Students: An Experimental Investigation — Jan 1, 2011

Exposure to movies that portray motivations for smoking places adolescents at particular risk for future smoking.

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The Effects of Arkansas Master Settlement Spending on Disparities in Smoking — Jan 1, 2011

We assessed the effect of Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) spending on smoking disparities in Arkansas, which distinguished itself from other states by investing all of its MSA funds in health-related programs.

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Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research: Is There No Place Like Home? — Dec 31, 2010

Latent class analysis. A new approach to studying the role of place in population health, can be used in both research and practice.

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Measuring Exposure to Protobacco Marketing and Media: A Field Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment — Dec 31, 2010

College students were exposed to protobacco marketing through multiple channels in a relatively short period: Exposures occurred primarily in the afternoon (42%), on weekends (35%), and at point-of-purchase locations (68%) or in movies/TV (20%), and exposures to Marlboro, Newport, and Camel represented 56% of all exposures combined and 70% of branded exposure.

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Lapse-induced Surges in Craving Influence Relapse in Adult Smokers: An Experimental Investigation — Dec 31, 2010

Previously abstinent smokers who lapse are at risk for increased cigarette cravings and full-blown relapse. The findings have implications for cognitive–behavioral treatments to prevent relapse and medications to help smokers manage cravings.

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The Role of the Self in Smoking Initiation and Smoking Cessation: A Review and Blueprint for Research at the Intersection of Social-Cognition and Health — Dec 31, 2010

This paper discusses a contemporary social cognitive framework that can be used to understand the role of the self-concept in smoking.

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Nicotine Replacement Prescribing Trends in a Large Psychiatric Hospital, Before and After Implementation of a Hospital-Wide Smoking Ban — Dec 31, 2010

Clinicians are more likely to treat symptoms of nicotine withdrawal when smoking is restricted. Hospitals should monitor prescriptions for nicotine replacement therapies to ensure high quality patient care.

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