Physician Communication Regarding Smoking and Adolescent Tobacco Use
Source: American Academy of Pediatrics
Date Published: 2011
Description
This article describes a study that examined the association between recalled physician communication and adolescents' attitudes toward smoking, knowledge about smoking, intentions to smoke, tobacco use, and quitting behaviors. It found that brief physician interventions have the potential to be a key intervention on a public health level through the prevention, cessation, and reduction of smoking and smoking-related disease.
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