Smoking in Adolescence

by Lloyd, Barbara B.; Lucas, Kevin; Holland, Janet; McGrellis, Sheena; Arnold, Sean

• ISBN13: 9780415178594
• ISBN10: 0415178592
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What factors influence adolescents to take up smoking? Why do more girls smoke than boys?Smoking in Adolescencelooks at smoking from the adolescents' own points of view. What emerges is that regular smokers are seen as fun-loving and nonconformist; cigarettes are a passport to a fashionable, popular and "hard" identity. Young people create, and are influenced by, complex images of smokers and nonsmokers. Barbara Lloyd and Kevin Lucas explore the psychological dimensions such as social environment, family, peers, stress and coping, body image, mood and pleasure. They suggest how anti-smoking interventions should be re-evaluated to take account of this new evidence throughout the school curriculum.

Table of Contents

List of figures	viii	(1)
List of tables	ix	(2)
Preface	xi	(3)
Acknowledgements	xiv
1 `Problem behaviour', sensation seeking and the concept of risk	1	(17)
2 Studying adolescent smoking	18	(16)
3 Two empirical studies of adolescent smoking	34	(19)
4 The social environment: families, relationships and smoking	53	(18)
5 Social environments: parenting, peers and school culture	71	(20)
6 Smoking and mood: the control of stress, the pursuit of pleasure and concerns about the body	91	(24)
7 Smoking and image formation	115	(12)
8 Social identities of adolescent smokers	127	(34)
9 Interventions	161	(22)
10 Breaking the mould	183	(7)
References	190	(16)
Index	206