Subjective effects of cigarette smoking in adolescents
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychopharmacology
- Vol. 92 (1), 115-117
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00215490
Abstract
Eighty-two per cent of a sample of 170 female adolescent smokers reported experiencing one or more of five specified subjective effects of smoking. Feeling calmer was the most frequently reported effect and daily smokers were more likely to report this than non-daily smokers (64% versus 38%, PP<0.001). These results indicate that subjective effects of smoking are commonly reported by children and it is possible that pharmacological factors are implicated alongside psychosocial ones even at this early stage.Keywords
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