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School-based tobacco use prevention and cessation: where are we going?
1Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, and Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089, USA. ssussma@hsc.usc.edu
Objective:
To discuss the past, present, and future directions of school-based tobacco use prevention and cessation research.
Methods:
Discuss the origins of tobacco use prevention research; how prevention research advanced with empirical etiologic work; the genesis of comprehensive social influences programming and its contents; multiple modalities of programming beyond the school setting; and the rebirth of teen cessation programming and the issue of dissemination.
Results:
There are many avenues of teen tobacco use prevention and cessation research and practice that need continued exploration, particularly regarding effects mediation and teen cessation.
Conclusions:
This discussion provides a background to assist health behavior researchers and practitioners to move forward in this arena.