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By Peter D. Jacobson, Paula M. Lantz, Kenneth E. Warner, Jeffrey Wasserman, Harold A. Pollack, and Alexis K. Ahlstrom. 299 pp. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2001. $21.95. ISBN 0-472-06771-0.

Readers might turn to this book seeking answers to three obvious questions about smoking among teenagers. Why do teenagers smoke? How can we prevent them from smoking? And how can we help them to quit? Unfortunately, the evidence carefully assembled and reviewed in this book cannot answer these questions with certainty — a reflection of the current state of this vexing public health problem. The book offers a research agenda to remedy the gaps in our knowledge and calls for comprehensive strategies for controlling smoking by young people, but it can only suggest a menu of possible options. The authors, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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