NCJ Number
233686
Journal
Journal of Drug Education Volume: 40 Issue: 3 Dated: 2010 Pages: 217-226
Date Published
2010
Length
10 pages
Annotation
This article illustrates the pendulum effect as it applies to the evolution of school-based smoking prevention research in the United States.
Abstract
School-based cigarette smoking prevention was initiated shortly after the first Surgeon General's Report in 1964. This article highlights a sequence of events by which school-based tobacco use prevention research developed as a science, and illustrates a pendulum effect, with confidence in tobacco use prevention increasing and decreasing at different points in time. Suggestions are offered to advance school-based smoking prevention research. (Published Abstract) References