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Book Review
Combating teen smoking: research and policy strategies
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By P D Jacobson, P M Lantz, K E Warner, et al. The University of Michigan Press, 2001.
WHY DO TEENAGERS SMOKE?
Not many years ago former US Surgeon General C Everett Koop was participating in a press conference at the Capitol Building in Washington DC. A reporter asked him directly, “why do teenagers smoke?” His answer, in essence, was “ . . .we have no idea, really. It's different for each child. But we need to know and we need to fund research to accomplish it.”
A team of researchers and staff from the School of Public Health, University of Michigan and associated organisations have taken up the challenge of understanding teenage smoking in this publication.
Although written by experts …