Attitudes that put adolescents at risk for smoking include: having tolerance of smoking by others; believing that smoking makes people look good and enhances their image; having the opinion that smoking is fun and pleasant; expecting generally positive consequences from smoking; and placing more value on perceived positive results of smoking than on negative consequences.
Social and environmental factors that affect smoking initiation include: accessibility of tobacco products; pricing of tobacco products; marketing of tobacco products; parental hostility and strictness; family conflict; level of parental supervision, involvement or attachment; parental smoking; sibling smoking; peer smoking; perceived norms and prevalence of smoking; perceived peer attitudes toward smoking; strength of attachment to peers; and interaction of social influences.
Source: Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General—2001 |
