Clean-air kids or ashtray kids — children's views about other people smoking

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IN a questionnaire survey of 658 10 to 14-year-old children from Lothian Region schools, the majority expressed strong disapproval of other people smok ing in their homes, on public transport and in public places. A minority of 42 children expressed tolerance or approval of other people smoking. The life-style profiles of the two groups of children were compared. The profiles of the pro-smoking children were sig nificantly different on every measure from the anti smoking group. They were more likely to come from smoking families, to have smoking friends, to choose unstructured, peer-oriented free-time activities, to be negative about school and to perceive themselves as low-achievers. With one important exception, the pro-smoking children conformed to the portraits of children who smoke regularly reported elsewhere in the literature. But only half were smokers them selves. The implications of the findings for anti smoking education programmes for the different groups of children are discussed.

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