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. 1995 Sep;41:1517–1523.

Preventing children from smoking. How family physicians and pediatricians can help.

R E Thomas 1, A P Thomas 1
PMCID: PMC2146690  PMID: 8520240

Abstract

Children progress through five stages to become smokers: anticipation, initiation, experimentation, habituation, and adult smoking. Children at risk of smoking can be identified. Physicians should ask for information that predicts smoking behaviour, advise not starting, assist staying a nonsmoker, arrange follow-up visits and booster sessions, and anticipate challenges to antismoking behaviours.

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