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Social Environmental Influences on Adolescents' Smoking ProgressionMin Qi Wang, PhD Objective:
To determine social environmental factors in relation to adolescent
smoking using both longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses. Methods:
A national sample of nonsmoking adolescents (N=4,431) who participated
in the 1989 Teenage Attitudes and Practices Survey and who were
re-interviewed in 1993 was used for this study. Results:
The smoking behavior of best friends and smoking beliefs were consistent
and significant factors in predicting adolescents' smoking progression
from nonsmoking status to regular smokers or experimental smokers.
Conclusions: By addressing several limitations of previous
studies, this paper contributes additional information regarding
the adolescents' smoking acquisition process.
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