The authors conclude that tobacco marketing may be a stronger influence in encouraging adolescents to initiate the smoking uptake process than exposure to peer or family smokers or sociodemographic variables including perceived school performance. Please, look critically at the study and discuss its strengths and weaknesses. Demonstrating or disproving causation is one of the main foci of empirical studies.
Statistics is the main source of tools for analyzing data and making scientific decisions.
Paradoxically, statistics does not seem to be concerned with the question of causation. Explain what correlation does mean and what it tells us in both experimental and non-experimental settings with respect to causation. It's goal is to teach the adolescents how to make well-informed, prudent decisions related to risky behavior. The system's interface is very fancy and includes text, graphics, voice, and video. She believes that her system will be a very effective teaching tool.