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School smoking policy characteristics and individual perceptions of the school tobacco context: are they linked to students’ smoking status?
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Sabiston, C. M., Lovato, C. Y., Ahmed, R., Pullman, A. W., Hadd, V., Campbell, H. S., Nykiforuk, Candace I.J., Brown, K. S.
The purpose of this study was to explore individual- and school-level policy characteristics on student smoking behavior using an ecological perspective. Participants were 24,213 (51% female) Grade 10–11 students from 81 schools in five Canadian provinces. Data were collected using student...
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The Influence of School Policies on Smoking Prevalence Among Students in Grades 5-9, Canada, 2004-2005
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Lovato, C. Y., Pullman, A. W., Halpin, P., Zeisser, C., Nykiforuk, Candace I.J., Best, F., Diener, A., Manske, S.
Introduction: School characteristics may account for some of the variation in smoking prevalence among schools. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between characteristics of school tobacco policies and school smoking prevalence. We also examined the relationship...