Research

Home smoking bans shown to affect attitudes toward smoking among youth
Testing whether smoking bans in homes affects an adolescent’s perception of smoking, researchers surveyed nearly 4,000 youth between ages 12 and 17. The youth were asked about their perceptions of smoking prevalence, the social acceptability of smoking in their community and the rules of their house regarding smoking and their family’s smoking status. A home’s smoking ban, whether parents were smokers or not, was associated with lower perceived levels of smoking in community and negative attitudes toward smoking. The full article can be found in Preventive Medicine, Volume 41, Issue.

Children’s films still portray cigarette use
Despite an agreement by the tobacco companies to stop promoting their products in the media arts, appearances of tobacco brands in children’s movies has not significantly diminished. As many as 12% of children’s films include tobacco brand or trademark images, according to a recent study conducted at Dartmouth Medical School and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Click here to view the report.

Many adolescents start smoking in the summer
With fewer activities to structure their time and many parents working outside the home, youth are often left to their own resources to occupy their increased free time during the summer month. Click here to read more.

Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative Launches Web Site
The Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative (YTCC) has launched www.youthtobaccocessation.org, containing information about youth tobacco cessation and the research projects and surveys the collaborative supports. In addition to resources for researchers and practitioners, the site includes fact sheets on youth cessation, and guidance for youth who wish to quit.

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