Smoking in adolescence
Subtitle: images and identities
By: Barbara Lloyd and Kevin Lucas and Janet Holland, Sheena McGrellis, and Sean Arnold.
Contributors: Lucas, Kevin, 1954-
Series: Adolescence and society
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Youth -- Tobacco use -- England.; Youth -- England -- Social conditions.; Adolescent psychology -- England.; Health behavior in adolescence -- England.
Description: In contrast to medical orthodoxy, Smoking in Adolescence looks at smoking from adolescents' own points of view, asking why more girls smoke than boys, at the factors which influence adolescents to take up smoking. What emerges is that regular smokers are seen as fun-loving and nonconformist; cigarettes are a passport to a fashionable, popular and 'hard' identity.

Concepts of adolescent development and problem behaviour, sensation seeking and risk taking are explored, and then smoking is examined in an international context by means of a review of major published studies. Smoking in Adolescence will be of practical interest to teachers, youth workers, health professionals and parents as well as students of psychology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-205) and indexes.