Mike A. Males serves on the California Wellness Foundation Adolescent Health Advisory Board, and he has written extensively on youth and social issues for the New York Times, the Lancet, Phi Delta Kappan, In These Times, and Scribner’s Encyclopedia of Violence in America.
Summary: Antismoking groups’ decision to focus only on preventing teenage smoking overlooks the problem that the large number of adult smokers make smoking seem socially acceptable to teens. Since smoking is more a conformist act than a rebellious one, antismoking...
Source: Teen Smoking, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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