1st Edition

Preventing Youth Access to Tobacco

By Steven Pokorny, Leonard Jason Copyright 2003
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

Learn to develop and assess comprehensive youth tobacco interventions! Preventing Youth Access to Tobacco examines the components of a preventive public health intervention directed at reducing the rate of youth tobacco use. This valuable book describes this innovative intervention, which involves making tobacco more difficult for young people to acquire and also calls for fines for possession of... Read more
  • Introduction: Preventing Youth Access to Tobacco
  • Measuring the Quality of Laws Limiting Youth Access to Tobacco
  • Community Readiness for Prevention: Applying Stage Theory to Multi-Community Interventions
  • An Assessment of the Relationship Between the Quality of School-Based Tobacco Prevention Programs and Youth Tobacco Use
  • An Examination of Factors Influencing Illegal Tobacco Sales to Minors
  • Examining Risks for Minors Participating in Tobacco Purchase Attempts
  • A Response to the Critiques of Tobacco Sales and Tobacco Possession Laws
  • Index
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Leonard A. Jason, Steven B. Pokorny