Smoking and Tobacco Control Monographs

Monograph 14: Changing Adolescent Smoking Prevalence

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Table of Contents:

• Preface (69 kb)
• Acknowledgements (68 kb)
• Contents (67 kb)
  
  
• Chapter 1
  Overview of Recent Changes in Adolescent Smoking Behavior (193 kb)
  • Changes in Adolescent Smoking Behavior over Time
    
    
• Chapter 2
  Changing Demographic Patterns of Adolescent Smoking over the Past 23 Years: National Trends from the Monitoring the Future Study (347 kb)
  • Methods
  • Results
    
    
• Chapter 3
  Trends and Subgroup Differences in Tobacco Use among High Scool Students in the United States, 1991-1997 (501 kb)
  • Methods
  • Results
    
    
• Chapter 4
  Trends in Adolescent Smoking in the United States; Data from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 1994 Through 1998 (605 kb)
  • Data Analysis
  • Results
  • Data Limitations
    
    
• Chapter 5
  Cigarette Smoking among Adolescents in California, 1990-1996 (361 kb)
  
  • Definition of Smoking for Adolescents
  • Change in Adolescent Smoking Behaviors, 1990-1998
  • Predictors of Adolescent Initiation
  • Comparison of California with Other States Using Current Population Survey Data
    
    
• Chapter 6
  Changing Social Norms to Decrease Adolescent Tobacco Use: Massachusetts, 1993-1996 (258 kb)
  • Trends in Massachusetts and the Nation Prior to MTCP
  • Trends Since 1993
  • Changes in Correlates of Smoking: 1993-1996
  • Changes in Lifetime and Current Smoking Associated with Correlates
  • Impact of Perceived Increasing Cigarette Prices
    
    
• Chapter 7
  Predictors of Tobacco Use among Adolescents in Florida, 1998-1999 (642 kb)
  • Methods
  • Results
    
    
• Chapter 8
  Changes in Adolescent Smoking Behaviors in Sequential Birth Cohorts (173 kb)
  • Methods
  • Have Age-Specific Adolescent Initiation Rates Changed over Time?
  • Discussion
    
    
• Chapter 9
  Pattern of Adolescent Initiation Rates over Time: National and California Data (221 kb)
  • Methods
  • Results
    
    
• Chapter 10
  Changing Adolescent Smoking Prevalence: Impact of Advertising Interventions (316 kb)
  • Should Antismoking Advertising Be Used for Tobacco Use Prevention?
  • How Should Advertising Campaigns Be Designed?
    
    
• Chapter 11
  Has Youth Access to Tobacco Changed over the Past Decade? (104 kb)
  • Sources of Tobacco
  • Measures of Tobacco Availability
  • Evidence That Availability Affects Use
  • Trends in the Availability of Tobacco to Minors
    
    
• Chapter 12
  The Impact of Price on Youth Tobacco Use (90 kb)
  • Prices and Adult Tobacco Use
  • Prices and Youth/Young Adult Smoking
    
    
• Chapter 13
  The Role of Tobacco Advertising and Promotion in Smoking Initiation (238 kb)
  • Tobacco Marketing and Youth Smoking: Evidence for a Casual Relationship
    
    
• Chapter 14
  African American Teen Cigarette Smoking: A Review (120 kb)
  • Protective Factors
  • An Increase in Risk Factors and a Decline in Protective Factors Equals an Increase in African American Teen Smoking Rates
  • Validity of African American Self-Reports About Cigarette Smoking
  • Outstanding Questions
  • Key Questions
    
    
• Chapter 15
  Understanding Tobacco-Use Research among Hispanic/Latino Adolescents: A Sociocultural Perspective (106 kb)
  • A Sociocultural Framework for Hispanic/Latino Adolescent Tobacco Use Research
  • Environmental Factors: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion
  • Researching Tobacco Use among Hispanic/Latino Adolescents References
    
    
• Chapter 16
  Asian American and Pacific Islander Adolescent Cigarette Smoking: A Review (176 kb)
  • Demographics
  • AAPI Tobacco Research; Epidemiology & Behavioral
  • Factors Affecting AAPI Youth Smoking
  • Domestic and International Advertising and Promotion
    
    
• Chapter 17
  American Indian and Alaska Native Teen Cigarette Smoking: A Review (169 kb)
  • Traditional Use of Tobacco
  • Cultural Factors
  • Smoking Prevention and Control Policy Issues