[tips] Re: Stopping smoking

[Marie Helweg-Larsen]

Yes, Judith Harris argues that parents don't matter (as she always does) except by passing on their genes. However, tons of research show that the more adult smokers a child is exposed to the more likely it is that she smokes (not just genetically related adults). Kids themselves also say that they are influenced by what their parents say about smoking (the point: children interpret no anti-smoking messages or ambiguous anti-smoking messages as implicit consent/support for smoking). Crawford, M. A. (2001). Cigarette smoking and adolescents: Messages they see and hear. Public Health Reports, 116, 203-215. I do find it humorous (in a weird way) that we assign the task of designing/implementing anti-smoking campaigns to the tobacco industry. And they don't do a good job -- I'm shocked!!! Marie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The NY Times has an interesting editorial (Nov, 27/06, "When don't smoke means do") on research on the effectiveness of tobacco company advertising to get kids to stop smoking (big surprise: it's not). It's at: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/opinion/27mon1.html (you may need to register (free) to see it) A bonus is that one of our favourite gadflies takes exception to an observation (and implied suggestion) of the editorial writer, namely that "Somehow the company [Philip Morris] forgot to tell the parents, as role models, to stop smoking themselves". http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/opinion/l03smoke.html Stephen (Say, did anyone notice that we now have a university professor, Stephane Dion, as the new leader of our traditional ruling party, the Liberals (he taught political science at the Universite de Montreal)? The front- running candidate he defeated was also a university professor, at some other school called Harvard. Do you suppose this trend to politician profs could catch on elsewhere, say, for example, in the Excited States? Over lawyers, movie stars, and whatever it was that George Bush was?) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- ********************************************* Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Dickinson College, P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 Office: (717) 245-1562, Fax: (717) 245-1971 Webpage: www.dickinson.edu/~helwegm ********************************************* --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english