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Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Does It Work for Tobacco Use Prevention?
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Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Does It Work for Tobacco Use Prevention?

Susan Curry and Robin Mermelstein
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine, Vol.160(1), pp.102-103
01/01/2006
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.160.1.102
PMID: 16389219

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Abstract

A recent prospective study shows a dose-response relationship between the number of parents who smoke when a child is in third grade and smoking initiation by 12th grade; having 1 parent who smokes increases the risk of smoking by 64% and having 2 parents who smoke increases the risk of smoking by 105%.6 In a continuation of their impressive program of research, the findings reported in Jackson and Dickinson's current article show that even parents who smoke can help to prevent their children from smoking. A prior publication from this study reported that by the time children reached the fifth grade introduction of the Smoke-free Kids intervention had increased a variety of factors related to antismoking socialization, such as parental self-efficacy to prevent smoking, parental reinforcement of abstinence, and parental efforts to counter prosmoking media influences.7 Unfortunately, the current article does not examine whether the changes in parental behavior reported earlier are directly related to the observed reduction in smoking experimentation.
 Children & Youth Pediatrics Behavior Parents & parenting Smoking cessation

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