Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the Surgeon General

ISBN-10: 0160905443
ISBN-13: 9780160905445
Category: Social Science / Sociology / General
Pages: 899
Language: English
Published: 2012
Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General
Author: United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General

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NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT -- OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price This Surgeon General s Report details the causes and the consequences of tobacco use among youth and young adults by focusing on the social, environmental, advertising, and marketing influences that encourage youth and young adults to initiate and sustain tobacco use. This is the first time tobacco data on young adults as a discrete population have been explored in detail. The report also highlights successful strategies to prevent young people from using tobacco.

This three volume set includes the following items:

A booklet containing highlights from the 2012 Surgeon General s report on tobacco use among youth and teens ages 12 through 17 and young adults ages 18 through 26. This booklet provides an overview of tobacco use within this targeted age group. The second booklet is an Executive Summary with two messages. One message from for Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services and a second message from Howard Koh, Assistant Secretary of Health and contains a brief introduction to the set and summary and conclusions for each chapter contained in the final volume.

The final volume contains over 800 pages of documentation, interwoven with text and data addressing the adverse health consequences of tobacco use by children and young adults. It includes research on a variety of topics, including nicotine addiction, trends in cigarette smoking among young adults, trends in smokeless tobacco use and cigar smoking over time, genetic factors in tobacco use among youth, and mass media influence on smoking to this age group to name a few. This third volume is rich with table data research findings to support the Surgeon General s concerns with America s use and tobacco.

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