Transitions out of High School: Time of Increased Cancer Risk?

Baranowski, Tom; Cullen, Karen Weber; Basen-Engquist, Karen; Wetter, David W.; Cummings, Scott; Martineau, Daniel; Prokhorov, Alexander V.; Chorley, Joe; Beech, Bettina M.; Hergenroeder, Albert C.

doi:10.1006/pmed.1997.0193

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“…The transition from primary to secondary school has been identified as a period of increased risk for adopting unhealthy lifestyle behaviors. 24 The findings herein are con- sistent with this observation because we found that staff school smoking policies were highly associated with the prevalence of daily smoking at the age of 13 years but not at the age of 16 years. The transition year into secondary school, which typically occurs at the age of 12 to 13 years, represents a period of vulnerability during which younger adolescents (vs older students) may be more susceptible to environmental cues related to tobacco use.…”

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The Influence of School Smoking Policies on Student Tobacco Use

Barnett

Gauvin²,

Lambert³

et al. 2007

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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Objective: To investigate the association between smoking behavior among secondary school students and school smoking policies.Design: Cross-sectional provincially representative study.Setting: Quebec secondary schools.Participants: Complete data were available for 763 of 1058 students aged 13 years in 50 schools and for 768 of 1160 students aged 16 years in 57 schools. School principals provided data on school smoking policies.Main Exposure: School smoking policies.Outcome Measure: Student tobacco use.Results: Of students aged 13 years, 3.8% of boys and 7.1% of girls smoked daily; 21.0% of boys and 25.2% of girls aged 16 years smoked daily. Of schools, 28.0% permitted staff to smoke indoors, 84.1% permitted staff to smoke outdoors on school grounds, and 83.2% permitted students to smoke outdoors on school grounds. Daily smoking was not associated with policies targeting student smoking or those targeting indoor smoking by staff. In multilevel analyses, girls aged 13 years were almost 5 times more likely to be daily smokers if they attended schools at which staff were permitted to smoke outdoors.Conclusions: Younger girls may be more susceptible to social influences at school related to tobacco use. School policies banning smoking by teachers and other school personnel within and outside the school should be an important component of comprehensive adolescent smoking prevention programs.Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007;161(9):842-848

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The Influence of School Smoking Policies on Student Tobacco Use

Barnett

Gauvin²,

Lambert³

et al. 2007

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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“…Adolescence is an important target age for assessing the prevalence and distribution of methamphetamine use based on the establishment of health promoting and compromising behaviors during this stage of life that often track into adulthood (Kelder, Perry, Klepp, & Lytle, 1994;Baranowski et al, 1997) as well as the potential for young people to develop substance use dependence over time. Wagner and Anthony (2002), for example, found 8% of marijuana users, 12-13% of alcohol users, and between 15-16% of cocaine users had developed dependence within 10 years of first use, with about one in 20 cocaine users becoming dependent within the first year of cocaine use.…”

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Methamphetamine Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors in U.S. High School Students: Findings from a National Risk Behavior Survey

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“…In particular, there is evidence, in a different empirical context (sun protection behaviour), that the transition from school to university is an important time in young people"s lives in terms of their responsiveness to health-related messages. Adolescents in general are the group least likely to protect themselves effectively against excessive sun exposure, and university students in particular have the highest unprotected sun exposure levels among adolescent groups (Baranowski, et al, 1997;Stanton, Janda, Baade, & Anderson, 2004). By analogy, it seems likely that adolescents in general and those of university age in particular, may be particularly sceptical about nutrition-related health messages.…”

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Persuading young consumers to make healthy nutritional decisions

Brennan¹,

Dahl²,

Eagle³

2010

Journal of Marketing Management

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There is widespread concern that consumers are making inappropriate decisions about what they eat, leading to a growing incidence of obesity and chronic illness which will strain public health budgets and damage economic competitiveness. Inappropriate nutritional decisions and obesity are of particular public policy importance where young consumers are concerned. The paper investigates how consumers, particularly young consumers, can be persuaded to make better nutritional decisions voluntarily, and how government and commercial persuasive communications can be deployed to facilitate such decisions. The key conclusions are that the mass media are not a reliable vehicle for bringing about the desired behavioural changes, but that new media, such as the Internet and "text messaging" should be used to deliver tailored messages to individuals, particularly younger consumers.

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Transitions out of High School: Time of Increased Cancer Risk?

Cited by 105 publications

References 55 publications

The Influence of School Smoking Policies on Student Tobacco Use

The Influence of School Smoking Policies on Student Tobacco Use

Methamphetamine Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors in U.S. High School Students: Findings from a National Risk Behavior Survey

Persuading young consumers to make healthy nutritional decisions

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