Preventing smoking and other drug use: let the buyers beware and the interventions be apt.
Those concerned with smoking prevention programs in the schools may be misled by a recent report that "we know what works; now let's make it happen." The advocated "social influences" programs appear to have no reliable effects on regular (greater than or equal to weekly) smoking and only short-term and small effects (5-8 percentage points) on "experimental" (less than weekly) smoking. To prevent smoking and other drug abuse among the children most at risk, it may be crucial to use broad-based, multidisciplinary interventions that go well beyond the health education classroom.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012572:School Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*