Response to O'Malley: cigarette smoking among high school seniors

P. M. O'Malley (Prev. Med. 13, 421-426, 1984) has stimulated discussion on the issues of self-reported smoking, the use of validation procedures to enhance self-report of smoking behavior, and the question of trends toward increases in underreporting of adolescent smoking. O'Malley's analysis was prompted by an earlier report of data from the Childhood Antecedents of Smoking Study. In response to O'Malley, further analysis comparing data from the Childhood Antecedents of Smoking Study with data from the Monitoring the Future study is presented, and recent evidence on the "bogus pipeline" methodology is reviewed.