When everyone else around them is smokking, young people are more likely to take up the habit, a Thai study finds | Bangkok Post: news

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Peer pressure on students to smoke

Young people who have been invited to try smoking tobacco by their friends have a higher chance of taking up smoking on a regular basis, according to a study by Burapha University (BUU).

The study involved 338 male middle-school students who smoke. 

Kamollapoo Thanomsat, a researcher at BUU, said the four main factors that influence young people smoke, or not, according to the study, are peer invitation, seeing people around them smoke, personal outlook on smoking, and the ability to avoid smoking.

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  • CMfarang

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    Discussion 1 : 10 Jan 2013 at 15.211

    Nothing new.It has been published elsewhere and a long time ago, that teens who start smoking are more likely to become addicted.

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