Preventing smoking in multiethnic communities.
OBJECTIVE
To examine community-based efforts to prevent tobacco use among adolescents, compared and contrasted to efforts conducted in schools.


METHODS
Review effective school-based prevention efforts including the Surgeon General's research reports describing broader based community approaches.


RESULTS
By reducing illegal sales, making it physically more difficult to purchase and consume tobacco, promoting nonuse and increasing the price of cigarettes via other policy changes, and using aggressive media spots to complement these community changes, we can shift this focus back to the industry and allied political and economic interests.


CONCLUSIONS
By adopting specific approaches, further reductions in the stubbornly stable adolescent prevalence rates can be realized.
Elder
J P
JP
Division of Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, CA 92182, USA. jelder@mail.sdsu.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D015438:Health Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D012907:Smoking / Q000208:ethnology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States