Contributions

  • Lucas, Kevin, 1954- - Contributor

Publication

1998 - Routledge, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

53,750 words, Guess

Page Count

215 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC362.296/0835/0941
  • LCCHV5745 .L56 1998

Description

In contrast to medical orthodoxy, Smoking in Adolescence looks at smoking from adolescents' own points of view, asking why more girls smoke than boys, at the factors which influence adolescents to take up smoking. What emerges is that regular smokers are seen as fun-loving and nonconformist; cigarettes are a passport to a fashionable, popular and 'hard' identity. Concepts of adolescent development and problem behaviour, sensation seeking and risk taking are explored, and then smoking is examined in an international context by means of a review of major published studies. Smoking in Adolescence will be of practical interest to teachers, youth workers, health professionals and parents as well as students of psychology.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Adolescence and society

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