Youth smoking

The social norms concept provides a fresh basis for thinking about how public health policies and campaigns impact health behaviour. Social norms offer much promise to the field of public health, nonetheless, the potential role of norms in changing health behaviour have not been…

Using data from 73 nations, I seek to answer 3 main theoretical questions related to the change in the youth smoking rates from the first to the second wave of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey. Hypothesis 1: what is the impact of neo-liberal economic policies, increases in foreig…