BACKGROUND The normality of smoking that children are exposed to is associated with increased risk of smoking uptake. To better understand policymaking that could address this issue, our aim was to identify and document the views of New Zealand policymakers regarding the example of smoking behaviour to children, and the policy responses they preferred. METHOD We analysed public documents for ...

BACKGROUND Smokers often have oral health problems. We studied whether poor oral health among non-smoking adolescents is connected to smoking behaviour in adulthood. METHODS We used an age cohort born in 1979 (n = 2582) taking part in annual oral health check-ups between the ages of 13 and 15. Self-reported non-smokers were used as the study population. As measures we used decayed, missing or...

Lung cancer patients report the highest distress levels of all cancer groups. In addition to poor prognosis, the self-blame and stigma associated with smoking might partially account for that distress and prevent patients from requesting help and communicating with their partners. The present study used innovative methods to investigate potential links of shame and guilt in lung cancer recovery...

At Manchester University medical students (n = 658) had more knowledge than law students (n = 245) about the hazards of smoking, were more convinced by the relevant evidence, and assessed the risk to health more highly. However, there was no significant difference in their smoking behaviour. Among medical students 61% were non-smokers, 10% ex-smokers, and 29% smokers, of whom three-fifths smoke...

There is a rich theoretical literature in economics which models habit-forming behaviours, of which addiction is the exemplar, but there is a paucity of experimental economic studies eliciting and comparing the preferences that economic theory suggests may differ between addicts and non-addicts. We evaluate an incentivecompatible risk and time preference experiment conducted on a sample of stud...