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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2000 92(24):1961; doi:10.1093/jnci/92.24.1961-a
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 24, 1961, December 20, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

MEMORANDUM FOR: Science Writers and Editors on the Journal Press List

Major Study Finds No Benefit From Intensive School-Based Smoking Prevention Program

December 14, 2000 (EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE 4 P.M. EST December 19)

Katherine Arnold, Deputy News Editor, Dan Eckstein, (301) 986-1891, ext. 112

A 15-year randomized trial found that a grade 3 through 12 school-based smoking prevention program did not reduce youth smoking.

This result is presented by Arthur V. Peterson, Jr., Ph.D., and colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, in the Dec. 20 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The program used an enhanced social-influences approach that included the 15 "essential elements" for school-based . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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