Preventing Youth Access to Tobacco
Contributors: Leonard A. Jason (Editor); Stephen B. Pokorny (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9780789019639
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Substance Abuse & Addictions - Smoking; Health/Fitness; Health & Fitness; Psychology; Self-Help; Youth; Tobacco habit; Health Care Issues; Prevention; Tobacco use
First sentence: SUMMARY. In response to the prevalence of tobacco use by minors, policy makers have sought more effective ways to use public policy to reduce tobacco use initiation and consumption and to promote smoking cessation.
Description: "Preventing Youth Access to Tobacco examines the components of a preventive public health intervention directed at reducing the rate of youth tobacco use. This book describes this innovative intervention, which involves making tobacco more difficult for young people to acquire and also calls for fines for possession of tobacco. It also gives you an essential review of current literature on this topic, shows you how to assess a community's readiness to change, and explains how to judge the comprehensiveness of school-based tobacco interventions."--Jacket.