This study provides new evidence regarding the role of social norms in shaping smoking behaviors among Latino young adults and suggests distinct influences of acculturation proxies and socioeconomic condition on smoking social norms in this population.
Firstly, we understand very little about how exposure to disadvantaged circumstances shapes smoking careers throughout the life course [ 5].
Given the importance of contextual factors in shaping smoking behaviour, an understanding of the experiences of rural Aboriginal women is critical to developing effective approaches to reduce their tobacco use.
Qualitative studies can contribute greatly to our understanding of smoker identity by offering potentially deep insights into the meanings young adults attach to their smoker identities and how changes in these could shape their smoking and smoking cessation behavior.
A lot of the girls were out of shape and smoking.
The literature demonstrates that pathways of disadvantage throughout the lifecourse shape the smoking behaviour of women [ 36, 37].
Crack and ice are also hideously addictive, far beyond the imagination of well-meaning people whose opinions about drugs were shaped by smoking a few spliffs in the 1960s.
It's ruined my memory of you, a memory of a beautiful, slim, popular, happy woman-to-be -- a potential wife -- and turned it into the sobering reality that you are an out-of shape, chain-smoking mother of four who looks as if she's had one too many whiskey sours.
In remote Northern Territory communities, family influences and intergenerational transmission were critical in shaping youth smoking behaviour [ 14].
