School-based tobacco use prevention.
Although school-based tobacco use prevention programs have had limited short-term success, questions remain about whether these programs would have the same degree of success with youths at risk for habitual tobacco use. This article describes a pilot project to discriminate these high-risk youths from low-risk youths. Two hundred twenty-five consenting youths from a western state completed a questionnaire containing individual, demographic, and environmental correlates of habitual tobacco use. The total sample consisted of 105 males and 119 females. Nineteen percent came from ethnic minorities, and 69% were from traditional households. Discriminant function analyses identified correlates that discriminated between current tobacco users and nonusers as well as students intending to use tobacco from those who did not.
School of Social Work, University at Buffalo, State University of New York 14260.
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Doueck
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Schinke
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Gilchrist
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Snow
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D010865:Pilot Projects; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012307:Risk Factors; D012574:Schools; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention