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Science 27 October 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5236, pp. 573 - 574
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News & Comment

Rachel Nowak

A new study has correlated advertising campaigns with increases in smoking in target groups. And a second suggests that advertising is more important than peer pressure in increasing the risks that adolescents will start smoking. Experts asked by Science to critique the studies gave them a mixed, but mostly positive, review. A sidebar (p. 573) discusses attempts to block a study of the effects of tobacco-industry lobbying.




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