Open AccessChanges in Age Trajectories of Smoking Experimentation During the California Tobacco Control Program
Author(s) -
Karen Messer,
John P. Pierce
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2009.160416
Subject(s) - preadolescence , tobacco control , medicine , demography , young adult , cohort , gerontology , population , cohort study , environmental health , public health , psychology , developmental psychology , nursing , pathology , sociology
We aimed to investigate population-level changes in smoking initiation during California's Tobacco Control (CTC) Program from 1990 to 2005, a period during which tobacco industry marketing practices also changed.