The meaning of smoking as health and social risk in adolescence.

摘要: This investigation describes what smoking means to adolescents, and attempts better understand it as a rite of passage. Applying social ontology an often-individualized issue, interviews were conducted with 20 adolescent smokers between the ages 13 19. Results show that adolescents possess detailed information about risks smoking. Both age gender differentiated meanings which found be both positive negative. Valence inconsistency increased age. are interpreted within cultural, developmental framework suggest reconstructing potentially positive. Implications for research prevention discussed.