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In Conversation: High School Students Talk to Students about Tobacco Use and Prevention StrategiesOffice of Qualitative Research, Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Doane College, Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Office of Qualitative Research, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Michigan.
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha
Southeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska, Office of Qualitative Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
School of Interpersonal Communication at Ohio University, Athens
University of Nebraska-Lincoln The purpose of this multi-site qualitative study is to explore how adolescents talk about tobacco use. Sixty-six students in four high schools became co-researchers and led focus group interviews with 205 fellow students. From the interviews, the authors develop a story line that reports how adolescents begin smoking, how smoking becomes a pervasive influence, how attitudes form about smoking, what it means to be a smoker, and, ultimately, student suggestions for tobacco use prevention. Embedded within this story line are complex questions and contradictions. We explore whether peers really are influential, if the media is important, whether smoking is a matter of personal choice, if schools actually promote tobacco use, and whether adolescents can quit smoking.
Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 12, No. 9,
1264-1283 (2002) This article has been cited by other articles:
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