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• Title: Smoking Susceptibility Among Never-Smokers: Data from the 2006-07 National Youth Smoking Survey (Quantitative Research) (Report)
• Author : Canadian Journal of Public Health
• Release Date : January 01, 2011
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 291 KB

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Starting smoking before 15 years of age is associated with increased risk of lung cancer, (1) and increased risk of breast cancer among females. (2) Despite the health risks of smoking, 14% of Canadian youth aged 15 to 19 were still considered current smokers according to the 2009 Canadian Tobacco Use and Monitoring Survey (CTUMS).3 Preventing youth smoking onset must remain a public health priority in Canada. One way to prevent youth smoking uptake is to target prevention activities to the non-smoking youth who are at greatest risk for becoming future smokers. (4) The concept of smoking susceptibility (defined as a lack of a firm commitment not to smoke among never-smokers) can be used to identify those at-risk youth. (5) Evidence from various prospective studies suggested that non-smoking youth who are susceptible to smoking are over twice as likely to experiment with cigarettes compared to those who are nonsusceptible. (6,7) Considering smoking susceptibility has been shown to be modifiable through interventions, (8) identifying susceptible non-smoking youth and understanding the factors associated with susceptibility is important for improving future smoking prevention programs. (9)

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