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The influence of school culture on smoking among pupils.
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School factors and not solely pupil composition probably cause variation in smoking prevalence amongst schools, but there are no theoretical models to explain why. In this paper we propose a hypothesis to explain schools' influence on pupils' smoking and test this using an existing cross-sectional survey of 23,282 pupils from 166 secondary schools in the West Midlands, UK. We hypothesise that school-level educational achievement scores would not be associated with smoking prevalence, but scho...
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- 10.1016/s0277-9536(03)00396-4
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Bibliographic Details
- Journal:
- Social science and medicine (1982)
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 9
- Pages:
- 1767-1780
- Publication date:
- 2004-05-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1873-5347
- ISSN:
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0277-9536
- URN:
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uuid:6bf3533e-b79b-4bc2-bbe7-23c857a7bcf6
- Source identifiers:
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351570
- Local pid:
- pubs:351570
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- 2004
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