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ERIC Number: EJ401837
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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Eight-Year Follow-Up Results of an Adolescent Smoking Prevention Program: The North Karelia Youth Project.
Vartiainen, Erkki; And Others
American Journal of Public Health, v80 n1 p78-79 Jan 1990
Discusses an 8-year follow-up study to a smoking prevention program for 13- to 15- year-old students, who were taught the skills to resist pressures to start smoking. Consistent evidence of preventive effects was found among those students who had been non-smokers when the program began. (Author/JS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Followup Studies, Health Programs, Nonschool Educational Programs, Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Risk, Smoking
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Finland
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