ArticleThe Journal of school health2009
The relationship between school policies and youth tobacco use.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- School policies for preventing smoking among young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Population approaches to improve diet, physical activity, and smoking habits: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2012Guideline
- Design of a school-based randomized trial to reduce smoking among 13 to 15-year olds, the X:IT study.BMC public health · 2014Trial
- Student and Staff Knowledge of School Tobacco Policies and Student E-Cigarette Use, California 2022-2023.The Journal of school health · 2026Article
- Tobacco-Free Schools in Practice: Policy Presence and Enforcement in Baltimore Schools.Advances in respiratory medicine · 2025Article
- Programme and policy perspectives towards a tobacco-free generation in India: findings from a qualitative study.BMJ open · 2023Article
- The Diffusion of Smoking: Association Between School Tobacco Policies and the Diffusion of Adolescent Smoking in 38 Schools in 6 Countries.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Facilitating conditions for staff's confidence to enforce school tobacco policies: qualitative analysis from seven European cities.Implementation science communications · 2022Article
- An Overview of Tobacco Policies in Kansas Unified School Districts.Kansas journal of medicine · 2022Article
- Are Danish vocational schools ready to implement "smoke-free school hours"? A qualitative study informed by the theory of organizational readiness for change.Implementation science communications · 2021Article
- Programme theory and realist evaluation of the 'Smoke-Free Vocational Schools' research and intervention project: a study protocol.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Self-Reported Sedative Drug Use Among Students Attending at University of Gondar, Gondar, Northwest, Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Substance abuse and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Differential patterns of e-cigarette and tobacco marketing exposures among youth: Associations with substance use and tobacco prevention strategies.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
- Implementing Prevention against Tobacco Dependence (PAD) "Toward the Tobacco-Free Schools, Neighborhoods, and Cities": Study Protocol.Journal of research in health sciences · 2020Article
- Study protocol of the X:IT II - a school-based smoking preventive intervention.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Assessing the strength of secondary school tobacco policies of schools in the COMPASS study and the association to student smoking behaviours.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2019Article
- School Policy, Administrator Perceptions, and Student E-cigarette Use.Health behavior and policy review · 2018Article
- School workers' knowledge, attitude and behaviour related to use of Toombak: a cross sectional study from Khartoum state, Sudan.BMC oral health · 2017Article
- Changing the Smoking Trajectory: Evaluating the Impact of School-Based Tobacco Interventions on Changes to Susceptibility to Future Smoking.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- Do stronger school smoking policies make a difference? Analysis of the health behaviour in school-aged children survey.European journal of public health · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe school setting is frequently used both to educate youth about risks involved in tobacco use and to implement tobacco prevention and cessation programs. Given that school-based programs have resulted in limited success, it is necessary to identify other setting-level intervention strategies. School tobacco policies represent a type of universal intervention that might have some promise for preventing or reducing tobacco use.
methodsHierarchical linear modeling was used to assess whether school tobacco policies were related to observations of tobacco use and current smoking among 16,561 seventh through twelfth graders attending 40 middle and high schools in Illinois.
resultsResults indicated that the enforcement of school tobacco policies, but not the comprehensiveness of those policies, was associated with fewer observations of tobacco use by minors on school grounds as well as lower rates of current smoking among students.
conclusionsThe school setting is a key system to impact youth tobacco use. Findings underscore the need to train school personnel to enforce school tobacco policy.
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