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Young People's Concepts of Smoking Addiction. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 364
This book explores how young people conceptualise
addiction to smoking and, the relationship
between young people's addiction beliefs and
intentions to smoke cigarettes. Addiction to smoking
is a major health problem, not just for adults, but
also for young smokers, up to 60% of whom are
dependent on nicotine. However, anti-smoking
prevention efforts targeted at young people
generally emphasise ill-health effects and little
attention is paid to addiction education which is
generally considered relevant only to adult smoking
and cessation efforts. As a consequence, young
people appear to have many misconceptions and
unrealistic ideas about addiction, which possibly
influence their initial decisions to take up
smoking. Understanding these conceptions is
important for anti-smoking education and may assist
in the development of primary prevention and
cessation intervention strategies targeted at youth
populations.
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