This article contributes to the general knowledge concerning the differences between smokers and nonsmokers. (MM)

The authors present guidelines for training health educators to facilitate smoking cessation in one-on-one and group sessions. These guidelines were developed from experience in smoking cessation projects involving l,000 adults. (MT)

Analysis of the effects on nonsmokers of breathing exhaled smoke precedes recommendations for action to assert nonsmokers' rights to breathe clean air. (GW)

Whether for or against permitting smoking in the schools, school districts should forcefully present the dangers of smoking in their health education programs. (MM)

This paper has a fourfold purpose: (1) to argue for a smoking policy in the workplace; (2) to examine the legal justification for a smoke-free environment; (3) to explain development of a smoking policy; and (4) to present a model smoking policy. (MT)

This article describes an innovative approach to the prevention of adolescent cigarette smoking, called Life Skills Training. The program was designed to facilitate the development of general coping skills, including techniques for resisting social pressures to smoke. Evaluation studies are summarized. (MT)

Offered are suggestions for educating elementary school children to the effects of smoking on health. (GW)

Health professionals should protect the rights of nonsmokers by banning smoking at health meetings and by not smoking themselves. (JD)

The author discusses conceptual differences among nonassertiveness, assertiveness, and aggression and presents suggestions for developing assertion skills in the nonsmoker. (MJB)

Continued and expanded efforts to educate people as to what factors contribute to coronary heart disease will help to decrease its occurrence. Risk factors include: cholesterol, smoking, hypertension, obesity, heredity, psychological influences, and the taking of oral contraceptives or alcohol. (CJ)

A model smoking cessation clinic for students is described. (MM)

Data from a survey of students who participated in the School Health Curriculum Project (SHCP) are analyzed to determine the effect of the SHCP on student smoking behavior three years after participating in the program. (JD)

Two units of the School Based Health Education Project in Howard County, Indiana, have been revised. The Little Smoky unit on smoking for second graders stresses the effects of smoking on the body systems while the Counter Conscious unit examines the uses of over-the-counter substances. (JMF)

Youth Quit Smoking Programs are discussed, and it is noted that senior high school students can get involved in planning, implementing, and evaluating smoking cessation programs. (MM)

Factors influencing a teenager's decision to smoke or not to smoke are discussed. Differences between smoking and nonsmoking students and their parents' attitudes about smoking are examined. (JD)