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Preventing tobacco use among youth and young adults : a report of the Surgeon General.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenagers--Tobacco use--United States--Prevention.
- Teenagers.
- Young adults--Tobacco use--United States--Prevention.
- Young adults.
- Smoking--United States--Prevention.
- Smoking.
- Tobacco industry.
- Nicotine addiction--Treatment.
- Nicotine addiction.
- Smoking Prevention.
- Smoking--epidemiology.
- Smoking--adverse effects.
- Tobacco Industry.
- Smoking Cessation.
- Adolescent.
- Young Adult.
- United States.
- Tobacco Use Cessation.
- Teenagers--Tobacco use--Prevention.
- Tobacco use--Prevention.
- Smoking--Prevention.
- Youth--Tobacco use--Prevention.
- Medical Subjects:
- Smoking Prevention.
- Smoking--epidemiology.
- Smoking--adverse effects.
- Tobacco Industry.
- Smoking Cessation.
- Adolescent.
- Young Adult.
- United States.
- Tobacco Use Cessation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 899 pages) : color illustrations
- Other Title:
- Report of the Surgeon General
- Place of Publication:
- Rockville, MD. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General, 2012.
- Summary:
- This Surgeon General's report details the causes and the consequences of tobacco use among youth and young adults by focusing on the social, environmental, advertising, and marketing influences that encourage youth and young adults to initiate and sustain tobacco use. This is the first time tobacco data on young adults as a discrete population have been explored in detail. The report also highlights successful strategies to prevent young people from using tobacco.
- Contents:
- Introduction, summary, and conclusions
- The health consequences of tobacco use among young people
- The epidemiology of tobacco use among young people in the United States and worldwide
- Appendices
- Social, environmental, cognitive, and genetic influences on the use of tobacco among youth
- The tobacco industry's influences on the use of tobacco among youth
- Efforts to prevent and reduce tobacco use among young people
- A vision for ending the tobacco epidemic.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed on April 16, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
- Has Supplement:
- United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General. Preventing tobacco use among youth and young adults (OCoLC)797017428
- Other Format:
- Print version: United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General. Preventing tobacco use among youth and young adults
- OCLC:
- 785852068
- Access Restriction:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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