Tobacco control
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Review
Adolescent and young adult tobacco prevention and cessation: current status and future directions.
To summarise the evidence on adolescent and young adult prevention and cessation, and provide future directions for research. ⋯ School based curricula alone have been generally ineffective in the long term in preventing adolescents from initiating tobacco use but are effective when combined with other approaches such as media and smoke-free policies. Prevention research should consider multiple approaches and the social conditions that influence the development of youth problem behaviours including tobacco use. Because youth smoking cessation has been understudied to date, scientifically rigorous adolescent smoking cessation studies need to be conducted with attention to high risk smokers and less than daily smokers. Tobacco prevention and cessation for young adults needs focused attention. Prevention and cessation programmes need to address other tobacco products in addition to cigarettes.
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To document the history of visits to Australia by tobacco industry sponsored scientists and news media reports about smoking and health matters generated by their visits. ⋯ These media reports are likely to have influenced many who were exposed to them to believe that the evidence against smoking remained equivocal.