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Training Student Leaders Cuts Peers' Smoking Rates
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 The findings were published in this week's edition of The Lancet.
"Our study has shown that the ASSIST training program was effective in achievement of a sustained reduction in uptake of regular smoking in adolescents for two years after its delivery. Furthermore, it was well received by both students and staff," the authors wrote. "Confidence in the robustness of this finding is enhanced by the very high response rates achieved (over 90 percent), the retention of all schools for the duration of the trial, the diversity of the schools involved, and the concurrence of self-reported smoking data with saliva testing."
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SOURCE: The Lancet, news release, May 8, 2008
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