Nicotine Addiction

Sixth-graders' intentions are first steps on road to smoking

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 28th, 2003

Sixth-graders may start out with good intentions about avoiding cigarettes, but more than a third of them will move into pre-smoking or actual smoking phases by the end of the academic year, according to new research.

Researchers Bruce G. Simons-Morton, EdD, MPH, and Denise L. Haynie, PhD, MPH, of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development surveyed students in Charles County, Maryland, in the fall and spring of their sixth-grade year. The findings appear in the American Journal of Health Behavior.

They classified the students into five stages - those who had never smoked; those who intended to smoke at some future time (like...

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