Social class and adolescent smoking behaviour.
The paper examines class based differences in smoking behaviour in middle and later adolescence. The analyses are based on questionnaire survey data drawn from a longitudinal study of adolescent socialisation, leisure and lifestyles in Scotland. Perhaps surprisingly, the social class of the family...
| Publicado en: | Social Science & Medicine Vol. 38; no. 10; pp. 1449 - 1461 |
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Elsevier Science
May 1994
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