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Clinical Trial
. 2004 Feb;94(2):263-5.
doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.2.263.

Project FLAVOR: 1-Year Outcomes of a Multicultural, School-Based Smoking Prevention Curriculum for Adolescents

Jennifer B Unger  1 , Chih-Ping Chou, Paula H Palmer, Anamara Ritt-Olson, Peggy Gallaher, Steven Cen, Kara Lichtman, Stanley Azen, C Anderson Johnson
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Project FLAVOR: 1-Year Outcomes of a Multicultural, School-Based Smoking Prevention Curriculum for Adolescents

Jennifer B Unger et al. Am J Public Health. 2004 Feb.

Abstract

To evaluate a multicultural smoking prevention curriculum, 16 schools were randomized to receive the multicultural curriculum or a standard curriculum and program effects on 1-year smoking initiation among 1430 never smokers were assessed. Hispanic boys who received the multicultural curriculum were less likely to initiate smoking than were those who received the standard curriculum; effects were insignificant among other groups. The prevention effect among Hispanic boys is encouraging, but additional research is needed to improve prevention effects among other groups.

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