Condensed from "Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Volume 39 (October 1968), 34-38

Most research in smoking cessation has shown no intervention clearly superior or successful. Of those who return to smoking after abstaining, a subgroup includes those who do so incrementally, eventually reaching their former level. An approach aimed at this subgroup, originally used in a group setting, involves intensifying the desire to smoke…

This bibliography is one in a series on smoking and health and supplements a preceding volume entitled "Bibliography on Smoking and Health-1969." It includes all of the items added to the Technical Information Center of the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health from January through December 1969. Eleven sections contain citations…

This study assessed whether or not the initial attitudes and beliefs of a behaviorally homogeneous group can be used as indicators of future smoking behavior. Ss included seventh graders who classified themselves as never-smokers on an initial survey and who participated in all three surveys over a 2-year period. The initial survey consisted of a…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 4-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Smoking. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into three sections, one each for intermediate grades, junior high school, and senior high school. Each section is further divided into units organized around "conceptual statements." Units are laid out in four columns across two pages.…

"The most important public health problem today," according to Dr. Robert S. Morison, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell University, "is America's failure to communicate the cancer and heart disease risks of cigarettes effectively enough to make teenagers decide not to start smoking". (Editor/RK)

Smokers who had received smoking cessation treatment of rapid smoking and behavioral counseling were assigned to one of two maintenance treatments. Treatments included coping-response and Pavlovian-exposure training. One added massed exposure to cigarettes, the other added nonmaintenance control condition. Both forms of maintenance reduced relapse…

Reviews literature on determinants of smoking behavior among nurses, examining history and current trends of cigarette use among nurses. Cites national and international studies showing nurses to smoke more than any other health professionals. Discusses stress as primary theory of smoking causation among nurses. Considers role of nursing education…

Research was conducted to evaluate how organizationsl systems that are publicly accused of wrongdoing attempt to justify themselves. The pattern of events surrounding smoking and health was examined over a 30-year period. Includes four figures, two tables, and references. (MD)

Investigated determinants of weight gain after quitting smoking in two smoking treatment outcome studies. Results indicated abstinence resulted in weight gain, and postquitting weight gain was predicted by pretreatment tobacco use, a history of weight problems, and eating patterns. Relapse to smoking did not follow weight gain. (Author/BL)

The health consequences of active and passive smoking are well known and the smoking epidemic is growing steadily, but worldwide efforts to control tobacco use often are merely attempts to control or color information about the product. (Author/GC)

A study was conducted to determine the extent to which multiple physical, psychological, social, and lifestyle measures differ among 386 high school males classified according to cigarette smoking status (nonintenders, mild intenders, strong intenders). Test instruments used and comparisons of results are discussed. (Author/CB)

The Coalition on Smoking OR Health was established to coordinate education programs to discourage young people from smoking. Projects that could be undertaken by parent associations are suggested. (MT)

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

This workbook presents a two-tiered strategy designed to enable mid to senior high school students to become Tobacco Awareness Peer Mentors, and to talk to fourth and fifth grade students about their personal experiences with tobacco and what they have read for themselves in actual tobacco documents. Each of the five units in the workbook includes…