Developing guidelines for smoking cessation interventions for pregnant adolescents.
More than 400,000 deaths a year in the United States are attributed to active and passive tobacco smoke exposure. Healthy People 2000 objectives target a reduction in the tobacco use of high-risk populations such as youth and pregnant women. This article describes guidelines for health professionals to address smoking cessation when working with pregnant adolescents and teen mothers who smoke.
Albrecht
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University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing, PA 15261, USA.
Cassidy
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Reynolds
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Ketchem
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Abriola
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D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D014481:United States