Smoking Behaviour from Pre-Adolesence to Young Adulthood

Smoking behaviour among young adults: beyond

Adolescent Cigarette Smoking: A Longitudinal Analysis Through Young Adulthood

It is estimated that smoking results in more deaths each year in the United States than alcohol, cocaine, heroin, AIDS, suicide, homicide, motor vehicle accidents, and fires combined (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2000). With about 8 out of 10 adult smokers in the United States having tried their first cigarette before age 18 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 1994), i...

Developmental Trajectories of Cigarette Smoking from Adolescence to Adulthood

Patterns of smoking behavior over time exhibit substantial variation, and these patterns, in turn, hold the potential to inform possible phenotypes of tobacco use and dependence. This chapter examines the literature concerning developmental trajectories of cigarette smoking between adolescence and adulthood. It also presents an empirical example that examines these trajectories by using data fr...

Women's vulnerability to sexual assault from adolescence to young adulthood.

PURPOSE To study the vulnerability to sexual assault among undergraduate women. METHODS The respondents were demographically representative of undergraduate women in state-supported universities in the United States. Participants (N = 1569) were surveyed using the Sexual Experiences Survey at the beginning and end of their 1st year and at the end of each of the next 3 years of their undergrad...

The role of genes in tobacco smoking during adolescence and young adulthood: a multivariate behaviour genetic investigation.

AIMS To incorporate a psychosocial model of tobacco smoking into a behaviour genetic design to examine genetic and environmental influences on variation in smoking involvement. DESIGN Longitudinal twin study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Twins initially aged between 13 and 18 years and registered with the Australian Twin Registry were surveyed three times between 1988 and 1996. A total of 414 p...