Focuses on the interrelation between stressors and smoking, and on its potential impact on coronary heart disease risk beyond that due to stressors or to smoking alone. Reviews evidence supporting the stress-smoking interrelationship, its relevance to the risk of heart disease, and mechanisms explaining why smokers smoke more during stress and why…

Written pre- and posttests were used to assess the smoking-related knowledge of 1,068 seventh graders in three comparable communities. Students in two communities participated in interventions designed to enhance knowledge acquisition, social activism, and non-use of tobacco. The interventions influenced respondents' health concerns, but not…

Reviews trends in the use of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana among high school seniors. Previous and current prevention efforts are highlighted and promising prevention approaches identified. (CH)

This study utilized a social learning framework to test the hypothesis that adolescents who have tried smoking in the past differ from those who have never smoked on several factors that theoretically place them at higher risk for beginning to smoke again. Implications of the findings for the design of school-based smoking prevention programs are…

Describes a program implemented in a junior high school setting designed to help nonsmokers, experimenting smokers, and dependent smokers. Presents an overview of the program which uses faculty support, biofeedback, films, structured discussions, and a 48-hour quit period for the purpose of abstaining from or decreasing smoking. (LLL)

Historical data were examined to observe the relationship between anti-smoking publicity, growth in cigarette advertisers' appeal to women, and change in proportion of women smokers. These relationships provide insight as to what interventions might be successful in reducing the growing number of women smokers. (Author/DF)

Drug use was investigated in a follow-up cohort of former adolescents representative of high school students in New York State who were interviewed nine years later at ages 24-25. A typical progression from one type of drug to another was established, but this does not necessarily imply causal relationships between different drugs. (KH)

Discusses current information on the health consequences of smoking and two types of risks: those associated with all smokers and the higher risks associated with other characteristics, such as to pregnant women, teenagers, heavy smokers, those with cardiovascular disease, users of alcohol, and smokers in certain occupations. (SK)

Describes how relevant aspects of environmental education can be integrated within the framework of contemporary high school chemistry. Examples which show how students can examine the chemical consequences of such social factors as smoking and drinking are provided. (JN)

A Georgia high school program abolishing tobacco use is outlined. At the end of the first year, the school found fewer drug problems, a cleaner environment, less tardiness and vandalism, and better student performance. (MD)

A study investigates the relationship between an activity-centered health program and positive health attitudes, future use of cigarettes, and changes in smoking behavior of parents. Results show that the experimental group posessed more positive health attitudes, and parents reported favorable changes in their own smoking behaviors. (Author/DF)

Based on data collected from 181 students across grades six to eight in rural northern Michigan, results suggest that peer substance use is highly correlated with personal substance use and increases with age. Sexual differences were also noted. (Author/PN)

Examined the health behaviors practiced by psychotherapists (N=86) themselves and the extent to which they focus on these behaviors with their clients. Results indicated that psychotherapists actively evaluate and make recommendations to their clients in the areas of diet, physical exercise, and relaxation practice. (JAC)

The effectiveness of negative practice and self-control procedures were evaluated in isolation and in combination in the reduction of smoking behavior. Female smokers (N=50) were assigned to either of three treatment programs. Data provided evidence for the superiority of the combined treatment package. (Author)

The author suggests that a critical factor in influencing healthful lifestyles among young people is a counselor's example. The counselor who continues to smoke loses an effective form of counseling. (Author)