Smoking behaviour among young adults: beyond youth prevention

Smoking behaviour among young adults: beyond youth prevention.

OBJECTIVE There is a widespread assumption that smoking behaviour is largely established by the age of 18 years. As a result, smoking prevention has focused almost exclusively upon youth. However, recent trends suggest that young adulthood may be an important--and largely overlooked--period in the development of regular smoking behaviour. The current study sought to examine patterns of tobacco ...

Smoking behaviour among young adults: beyond

Hopefulness among non-U.S.-born Latino youth and young adults.

PROBLEM U.S. Latino youths experience disproportionately high rates of health and social problems. There is a need to identify protective factors for reducing risky behaviors. Little is known about the protective nature of hope among immigrant Latino adolescents. METHODS This descriptive cross-sectional study examined hope and expectations for the future in non-U.S.-born Latino adolescents an...

Sexual coercion among youth and young adults in Lima, Peru.

PURPOSE To determine the prevalence and correlates of sexual coercion in young adults in Lima, Peru. METHODS Lifetime sexual coercion and that at first sexual experience were studied in 629 sexually active young people, drawn from representative samples of 611 adolescents and 607 young adults. RESULTS Almost half of the young women and a quarter of the young men in the study reported sexual...

Time trends in smoking habits among Italian young adults.

BACKGROUND In most developed countries the prevalence of smoking habits is decreasing in men, while in women the prevalence seems to decline in Northern Europe but to increase in the Mediterranean area. The present research aims at assessing time trends in smoking habits in Italy. METHODS In the frame of the Italian Study on Asthma in Young Adults (ISAYA) a random sample of the Italian popula...