Competence skills help deter smoking among inner city adolescents

Tobacco Control

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-39

  Epstein, Jennifer A ^a   Griffin, Kenneth W ^a   Botvin, Gilbert J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent smoking; Competence skills; Peer pressure; Refusal assertiveness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; PEER GROUP; PLANT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ASSERTIVENESS; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; PEER GROUP; PLANTS, TOXIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

EID: 0034146557     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.9.1.33     Document Type: Article

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