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Health Promotion International Advance Access published online on November 1, 2004
Health Promotion International, doi:10.1093/heapro/dah404
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Cigarette access and pupil smoking rates: a circular relationship?

Katrina M. Turner 1*, Jacki Gordon 2, and Robert Young 3

1 The Glasgow Centre for the Child & Society, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2 NHS Health Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
3 MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Katrina M. Turner, E-mail: k.turner{at}socsci.gla.ac.uk


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SUMMARY Adolescents obtain cigarettes from both commercial and social sources. While the relationship between commercial access and adolescent smoking has been researched, no one has considered in detail whether rates of peer smoking affect cigarette availability. In two relatively deprived Scottish schools that differed in their pupil smoking rates, we assess pupil access to cigarettes. 896 13 and 15 year olds were surveyed, and 25 single-sex discussion groups held with a sub-sample of the 13 year olds. Smokers in both schools obtained cigarettes from shops, food vans and other pupils. However, pupils in the ‘high’ smoking school perceived greater access to both commercial and social sources, and had access to an active ‘peer market’. These findings suggest that variations in cigarette access may contribute to school differences in pupil smoking rates, and that the relationship between access and adolescent smoking is circular, with greater availability increasing rates, and higher rates enhancing access.

Keywords: school differences; pupil smoking; cigarette access.
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