Profiles of Violence and Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Relation to Impulsivity: Sustainable Consumption in Adolescents

Fuentes, María del Carmen Pérez; Jurado, María del Mar Molero; Martín, Ana Belén Barragán; Linares, José Jesús Gázquez; Jesus, José Manoel Henriques de

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“…Tobacco prices were also shown to be a major influence on youth smoking, such that higher prices deterred minors' tobacco usage. Such research is part of a larger body of scholarship on youth tobacco consumption that has also pinpointed a wide range of predictors (e.g., family cohesion) and consequences (e.g., impulsivity) associated with youth tobacco use [9,10]. Similar patterns have been explored not only within the U.S., but elsewhere around the world [7,11,12].…”

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Evaluating the Impact of the Synar Program: Tobacco Access and Use among Youth in Mississippi, the South, and the U.S.

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1) Background: This study examines the impact of Synar policy adoption on youth commercial access to tobacco products in Mississippi, the South, and the remaining U.S. The principal focus on youth commercial access is complemented by analyses of Synar's impact on minors' non-commercial access to tobacco and tobacco use patterns. Mississippi has been especially aggressive in implementing Synar, as evidenced by its unusually low retailer violation rates (RVRs). Synar, a mandatory, enforceable regulation meant to limit youth's retail access to tobacco, was implemented nationwide in 1997. This study is governed by a combination of conceptual insights from a diffusion of health innovation perspective and structuration theory. (2) Methods: Repeated cross-sectional data from 1995 to 2011 from the CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey are analyzed using a pre/post-implementation, quasi-experimental analytic strategy. Tobacco access and use in the pre-Synar era (1995)(1996)(1997) are compared with two post-Synar periods (1999-2005 and 2007-2011), thereby highlighting diffusion effects related to this policy innovation within Mississippi, the South, and the remaining U.S. (3) Results: Analyses of temporal trends reveal that Mississippi and other study regions effectively restricted commercial access to tobacco. Positive outcomes associated with Synar adoption were observed several years after initial implementation, thus supporting a diffusion of innovation perspective. However, results also reveal that Mississippi youth were more inclined than their counterparts elsewhere to gain access to tobacco through non-commercial means after Synar implementation, and that declines in tobacco use among Mississippi youth were less robust than those observed elsewhere. Such variegated effects are in line with expectations linked to structuration theory. (4) Conclusions: Synar policy implementation has been generally effective at deterring youth access to tobacco and, in many cases, has yielded declines in tobacco use. However, there is no evidence that especially aggressive retailer compliance checks in Mississippi have yielded distinctive benefits for youth in this state.

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Evaluating the Impact of the Synar Program: Tobacco Access and Use among Youth in Mississippi, the South, and the U.S.

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“…The excessive consumption of alcohol, separately or in combination with other psychoactive substances, is one of the leading causes of preventable death, noncommunicable diseases, and other negative socioeconomic outcomes (crime, road incidents, violence, workplace-productivity loss) [1][2][3][4][5][6]. The adverse effects of alcohol are more closely related to people who drink frequently, belong to disadvantaged groups, and heavily drink spirits rather than beer or wine [7][8][9].…”

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Impact of Taxation Policy on Household Spirit Consumption and Public-Finance Sustainability

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The objective of this study was to estimate the sensitivity of spirit quantity demanded for price and income changes in Montenegro and to show the effectiveness of taxation-policy changes in the reduction of spirit consumption. It is the first study on this topic in Montenegro, where adverse effects of alcohol are recognized as an important obstacle in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The price elasticity of spirits was estimated using Deaton’s methodology on the Household Budget Survey (HBS) data in the period of 2006–2017. Cigarettes were included as a control variable as, along with spirits, they are one of the most harmful substances used in Montenegro. Using these results, we simulated the effects of spirit use on public revenue. The results show that the spirits’ own price elasticity equaled −0.45, while the cross-price elasticity equaled −0.17, showing that spirits and cigarettes are complementary goods. These results, along with elasticities calculated by sex (male, −0.55; female, −0.5), income groups (low income, −1.16; middle-income, −0.46; high-income, −0.26), and for the working-age group (−0.74), demonstrate that an increase in excise taxes could be a very efficient tool in decreasing the adverse effect of spirits and cigarettes on household member’s productivity, health, and budget, which is in line with SDGs. An efficient road map for sustainable development for Montenegro must include the reduction of health-harmful substance use through excise tax increase.

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“…Pérez-Fuentes, Molero Jurado, and Barragán Martín (from the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Almería, Spain), and Gázquez Linares (also from the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Chile), analyse the "Profiles of Violence and Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Relation to Impulsivity: Sustainable Consumption in Adolescents". This article seeks "to identify different adolescent profiles identified by their tobacco and alcohol use and patterns of violent behavior, as well as to analyze the extent to which such adolescents show impulsivity traits" [11] (p. 1), concluding that "social problems derived from risk behaviors in the adolescent population require intervention directed at developing prosocial behavior while reducing risk behaviour" [11] (p. 2). It is also advocated that "programs must also be designed to promote successful adolescent decision-making for the sustainable development of responsibility, the acquisition of individual resources, and the prevalence of prosocial competencies over involvement in substance use and risk behavior" [11] (p. 9).…”

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“…This article seeks "to identify different adolescent profiles identified by their tobacco and alcohol use and patterns of violent behavior, as well as to analyze the extent to which such adolescents show impulsivity traits" [11] (p. 1), concluding that "social problems derived from risk behaviors in the adolescent population require intervention directed at developing prosocial behavior while reducing risk behaviour" [11] (p. 2). It is also advocated that "programs must also be designed to promote successful adolescent decision-making for the sustainable development of responsibility, the acquisition of individual resources, and the prevalence of prosocial competencies over involvement in substance use and risk behavior" [11] (p. 9). The authors argue that, as a contribution, the Sociology of Education "proposes priorities for action, such as the following: (1) achieving consequent articulation between education and strategies for the social development of a community and its current problems, and (2) promoting participation of social sectors in approaching these problems" [11] (p. 7).…”

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“…It is also advocated that "programs must also be designed to promote successful adolescent decision-making for the sustainable development of responsibility, the acquisition of individual resources, and the prevalence of prosocial competencies over involvement in substance use and risk behavior" [11] (p. 9). The authors argue that, as a contribution, the Sociology of Education "proposes priorities for action, such as the following: (1) achieving consequent articulation between education and strategies for the social development of a community and its current problems, and (2) promoting participation of social sectors in approaching these problems" [11] (p. 7).…”

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Sociology of Education for a Sustainable Future

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2019

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The Special Issue of the journal Sustainability—The importance of Sociology of Education for a sustainable future, aims to offer a contribution to the deepening of the relationship between the Sociology of Education and sustainability. There are seven published papers that, to a greater or lesser degree, problematize this relationship. This editorial presents this Special Issue, the published papers, contextualising this topic in contemporary science, concluding that this potential has room to be fully developed.

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Profiles of Violence and Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Relation to Impulsivity: Sustainable Consumption in Adolescents

Cited by 14 publications

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Evaluating the Impact of the Synar Program: Tobacco Access and Use among Youth in Mississippi, the South, and the U.S.

Evaluating the Impact of the Synar Program: Tobacco Access and Use among Youth in Mississippi, the South, and the U.S.

Impact of Taxation Policy on Household Spirit Consumption and Public-Finance Sustainability

Sociology of Education for a Sustainable Future

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