Young people

• Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the US Surgeon General (March 2012)
• Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey(SALSUS) National Report 2010 (published December 2011)
• Evidence for youth smoking prevention measures (May 2011) (pdf 71k
• ASH Scotland briefing paper on young people and tobacco (March 2010)
• Young adult smokers in Scotland (Dec 2008) Scottish Public Health Observatory
  An analysis of young adult (age 16-24) smokers, drawing mainly on the Scottish Household Survey. It also draws on a range of sources for particular populations with high smoking prevalence that are not covered by or likely to be very under-represented in the Scottish Household Survey. It considers the characteristics of young adult smokers - who they are, how/where they spend their time - and trends over time to help inform the development and targeting of practical responses to reduce smoking uptake in these transition years.
• A review of young people smoking in England (May 2009) Public Health Research Consortium.  A short review to assess the potential for strengthening the youth-oriented dimension of  UK DOH tobacco control strategy.
• European ACCESS report on teen smoking in Europe (October 2010)
• Reducing tobacco sales to young people (pdf 636kb) - a collaborative working guide for organisations and agencies who wish to contribute to reducing tobacco sales of tobacco to under-eighteens
• Designing and delivering smoking cessation services for young people: lessons from the pilot programme in Scotland (November 2007) (pdf 414kb)
• An Evaluation of the Test Purchase of Tobacco Pilot Scheme commissioned by ASH Scotland and NHS Health Scotland on behalf of The Scottish Executive Tobacco Enforcement Protocol for England, Wales and Northern Ireland

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