title: A concise history of school-based smoking prevention research: a pendulum effect case study.
abstract: School-based cigarette smoking prevention was initiated shortly after the first Surgeon General's Report in 1964. This article highlights a sequence of events by which school-based tobacco use prevention research developed as a science, and illustrates a pendulum effect, with confidence in tobacco use prevention increasing and decreasing at/different points in time. Suggestions are offered to advance school-based smoking prevention research.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Alhambra, CA 91803-4737, USA. ssussma@usc.edu
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sussman
authors.forename: David S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Black
authors.forename: Louise A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Rohrbach
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D006266:Health Education / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012106:Research; D012907:Smoking / Q000639:trends*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D014481:United States