Parental Smoking and Adolescent Smoking Initiation: An Intergenerational Perspective on Tobacco Control

2009390 citationsJournal Articlegreen Open Access

Authors

Stephen E. Gilman

Richard Rende · Brown University

Julie Boergers · Rhode Island Hospital

David B. Abrams · Johns Hopkins University

Stephen L. Buka

Melissa A. Clark · John Brown University

Suzanne M. Colby

Brian Hitsman · Northwestern University

Abstract

Parental smoking is an important source of vulnerability to smoking initiation among adolescents, and parental smoking cessation might attenuate this vulnerability.

Topics & Keywords

Smoking Behavior and Cessation Air Quality and Health Impacts Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: PEDIATRICS

Volume 123, Issue 2, pp. e274-e281

DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-2251

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