期刊名称：Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
电子版ISSN：0973-1342
出版年度：2011
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：19-22
出版社：Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
摘要：Adolescence is a period of diverse challenges, curiosity, risk taking and skill acquisition. Individual and contextual changes during adolescence are rapid and pervasive. Adolescent substance use is a public health problem with serious personal and societal consequences. Recent studies from western countries as well as India have reported a high prevalence of substance abuse in adolescents [1 – 3]. Among the substance tobacco use is of great concern due to increasing prevalence in the developing countries. As much as 18% of the adolescents around the world use tobacco [4]. The use of tobacco is increasing due to the aggressive marketing by tobacco targeting adolescents.
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