INTRODUCTION

Innovative approaches to youth tobacco control: introduction and overview

K E Warner¹, P D Jacobson¹, N J Kaufman²

¹ Department of Health Management & Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
² President, Strategic Vision Group, Princeton Junction, New Jersey, USA

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Kenneth E Warner, PhD, Department of Health Management & Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 109 S Observatory Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, USA;
kwarner@umich.edu

Keywords: cessation; youth; prevention

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Cigarette smoking is a vicious cycle. Each year a new generation of children experiments with smoking. In many societies, half of them will become addicted, most destined to smoke for decades thereafter until either they manage to quit or death ends their struggle to do so. The glamorous, seductive, and youthful images of cigarette advertising copy—the ruggedly handsome cowboy pulling on his cigarette, the sexy and impossibly lean female toying with hers—give way over time to the harsh reality of wizened faces and tar coated lungs that gasp urgently for breath. Smoking kills one of every two life long smokers. The unlucky half loses an average of 15 years of life compared with people who never smoke. Their children or grandchildren become their replacement smokers. The cycle repeats itself again and again, year after year.

The fraction of young people who begin to smoke is not constant year to year, . . . [Full text of this article]

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