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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786550003321

Titolo

Preventing youth access to tobacco / / Leonard A. Jason, Steven B. Pokorny, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-317-78769-2

1-315-80882-X

1-317-78770-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (110 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JasonLeonard

PokornySteven B

Disciplina

362.29/67/0835

Soggetti

Youth - Tobacco use - Prevention

Tobacco use - Prevention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Co-published simultaneously as Journal of prevention & intervention in the community, volume 24, number 1, 2002."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Preventing Youth Access to Tobacco; Measuring the Quality of Laws Limiting Youth Access to Tobacco; Community Readiness for Prevention: Applying Stage Theory to Multi-Community Interventions; An Assessment of the Relationship Between the Quality of School-Based Tobacco Prevention Programs and Youth Tobacco Use; An Examination of Factors Influencing Illegal Tobacco Sales to Minors; Examining Risks for Minors Participating in Tobacco Purchase Attempts; A Response to the Critiques of Tobacco Sales and Tobacco Possession Laws; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Learn to develop and assess comprehensive youth tobacco interventions!Preventing Youth Access to Tobacco examines the components of a preventive public health intervention directed at reducing the rate of youth tobacco use. This valuable 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 illustrates the rationale for this intervention and reviews the literature on the topic, pointing to findings that indicate that this kind of comprehensive intervention has been s