The importance of social environment in preventing smoking: an analysis of the Dead Cool intervention

• Main Authors: Jennifer Badham (Author), Helen McAneney (Author), Laura Dunne (Author), Frank Kee (Author), Allen Thurston (Author), Ruth F Hunter (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background An adolescent's perceptions of their family's and friends' smoking attitudes and behaviour can influence their own uptake of smoking. There are two broad sources of such social influence: observing the behaviour directly, and assimilating attitudes. Methods We anal...