A cognitive-developmental approach to smoking intervention.

Abstract

primary prevention of adolescent smoking / school-based prevention programs / cigarette smoking is a causal factor in life-threatening diseases such as cancer of the lung and bladder and diseases of the cardiovascular system, and is a causal and an exacerbating factor for less severe health threats such as bronchitis review the basic assumptions underlying our approach to primary prevention and the data on which it is based / brief overview of our current intervention methodology and preliminary data on its success / present some of the empirical data that are persuading us to pursue yet other directions for the development of more powerful and comprehensive approaches to the prevention of smoking during adolescence