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Smoking
Relation to social mobility
Smoking cigarettes increases the chances of morbidity, resulting in high costs related to medications and treatment, as well as increased absence from work.Importance
Important
end of junior high and high school
Sources
Kiiskinen, Vartiainen, Puska & Pekurinen (2002). “Smoking-related costs among 25 to 59 year-old males in a 19-year individual follow-up”, National Library of Medicine.
Campbell et al. (2008). “An informal school-based peer-led intervention for smoking prevention in adolescence (ASSIST): a cluster randomized trial”, National Library of Medicine.
Thomas, McLellan & Perera (2013). “School-based programs for preventing smoking”, National Library of Medicine.
What to Influence
Ways to Influence
Post-primary ages
end of junior high through high school
Cessation and prevention of smoking
end of junior high through high school
Recruitment of opinion shapers, raising awareness, adapted cognitive behavioral therapy programs, school policy