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  • Peer influence significantly shapes adolescent smoking behaviors.
  • Research often focuses on negative peer modeling, overlooking prosocial peer influences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how best friends' smoking behaviors and perceived peer influence against smoking affect adolescent smoking initiation and frequency.
  • To explore the dual role of close friends' behavior and broader peer group norms in adolescent smoking.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal study (1999-2004) with US adolescents (N=184) aged 13-17.
  • Annual self-reports on smoking, best friend's smoking, and perceived peer influence.
  • Discrete time survival analyses for initiation and bivariate latent curve modeling for smoking frequency.

Main Results:

  • Having a best friend who smokes was associated with tripled odds of smoking initiation.
  • Perceived peer influence to not smoke was unrelated to initiation but predicted decreased smoking frequency over time.
  • Best friends' smoking frequency positively correlated with adolescents' smoking frequency.

Conclusions:

  • Both close friend's behavior and perceived peer norms contribute to adolescent smoking patterns.
  • Prosocial peer influence can mitigate smoking frequency, even when close friends smoke.
  • A combined understanding of dyadic and group peer influences is crucial for adolescent smoking interventions.