Smoking behavior of adolescents exposed to cigarette advertising.

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• Alternative Title:
  Public Health Rep
• Personal Author:
  Botvin, G J ; Goldberg, C J ; Botvin, E M ; Dusenbury, L
• Description:
  The purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between the exposure of adolescents in the seventh and eighth grades to cigarette advertising and their being smokers. A survey questionnaire given to 602 adolescents assessed their exposure to cigarette advertising and provided measures of their smoking behavior, demographic characteristics, and some psychosocial variables. The results indicated that exposure to cigarette advertising and having friends who smoked were predictive of current smoking status. Adolescents with high exposure to cigarette advertising were significantly more likely to be smokers, according to several measures of smoking behavior, than were those with low exposure to cigarette advertising. The findings extend previous research identifying factors that may play a role in the initiation and maintenance of smoking among adolescents.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adolescent Behavior Advertising As Topic Female Humans Male Newspapers As Topic Peer Group Periodicals As Topic Prevalence Research Article Risk Factors Smoking

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• Source:
  Public Health Rep. 108(2):217-224
• Pubmed ID:
  8464979
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMCnull
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  108
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Reports
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  urn:sha256:e6ea4aa103b3dd4deb15aaa8c5d93a2819cf5ff62ae882fb1cb1489a8e6a8f4c
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/63877/cdc_63877_DS1.pdf
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