Young People's Concepts of Smoking Addiction

ISBN-13: 9783639059878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 364 str.

Calvin Wang

Opis

This book explores how young people conceptualise addiction to smoking and, the relationship between young peoples addiction beliefs and intentions to smoke cigarettes. Addiction to smoking is a major health problem, not just for adults, but also for young smokers, up to 60% of whom are dependent on nicotine. However, anti-smoking prevention efforts targeted at young people generally emphasise ill-health effects and little attention is paid to addiction education which is generally considered relevant only to adult smoking and cessation efforts. As a consequence, young people appear to have many misconceptions and unrealistic ideas about addiction, which possibly influence their initial decisions to take up smoking. Understanding these conceptions is important for anti-smoking education and may assist in the development of primary prevention and cessation intervention strategies targeted at youth populations.

O autorze

Wang Calvin Calvin Wang graduated in 2006 with a PhD in Social Marketing and is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University. His research covers areas in both Marketing and Management, and he works primarily on collaborative projects at local, state & federal government levels. He won a Faculty Best New Researcher Award in 2007.