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. 2004 Feb;94(2):331-7.
doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.2.331.

Progression to established smoking among US youths

Paul D Mowery  1 , Matthew C Farrelly, M Lyndon Haviland, Julia M Gable, Henry E Wells
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Progression to established smoking among US youths

Paul D Mowery et al. Am J Public Health. 2004 Feb.

Abstract

Objectives: Our study presents national estimates of the proportion of youths in each of 7 stages of smoking and investigates the associations between risk/protective factors and progression to established smoking.

Methods: We analyzed data from the 1999 and 2000 National Youth Tobacco Surveys.

Results: In 1999 and 2000, 48.6% of US adolescents had at least experimented with tobacco, and 7.8% were established smokers. Important correlates of progression to established smoking included parental advice not to smoke, antismoking lessons in school, susceptibility to tobacco industry advertising and promotion, peer smoking, and exposure to smoking at home.

Conclusions: Interventions to stop adolescent progression to established smoking should target susceptible never smokers and early experimenters as well as those in later stages of smoking.

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Smoking stage distribution of US adolescents who had at least tried a cigarette, by age: 1999–2000 National Youth Tobacco Surveys.
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