Ethno-specific patterns of adolescent tobacco use and the mediating role of acculturation, peer smoking, and sibling smoking

Addiction

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1340-1351

  Asbridge, Mark ^a   Tanner, Julian ^b   Wortley, Scot ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Ethnicity; Peer smoking; Sibling smoking; Smoking; Social learning; Youth

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RELIGION; SIBLING; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ONTARIO; PEER GROUP; SIBLINGS; SMOKING;

EID: 24344459431     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.01165.x     Document Type: Article

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