2015 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

5006.0
Youth and young adult perceptions of tobacco use and risks

Wednesday, November 4, 2015: 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Poster

Board 1
Assessing Adolescents' perceptions of health risks, social risks and benefits across tobacco products   
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD and Maria Roditis, PhD
Board 2
Adolescents' Perceptions of Addictive and Pharmacological Effects of Tobacco Products   
Maria Roditis, PhD and Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD
Board 3
Exploring contextual predictors of poly-use of tobacco products among African American young adults   
Ming-Ching Liang, PhD, Lee Ann Kahlor, PhD and Kentya Ford, DrPH, CHES
Board 4
From Yummy Gummy to Arctic Ice: Adolescents' Use of Flavored Tobacco Products   
Lucy Popova, PhD, Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD, Kimberly Walsh, MA and Pamela Ling, MD, MPH
Board 5
Accurate Perceptions of Peer Norms is Key to Predicting Adolescent Abstaining from Tobacco Use Across Diverse School Settings and Student Types   
Jessica Perkins, Doctoral Candidate, H. Wesley Perkins, PhD and David Craig, Ph.D.
Board 6
Increasing rates of alternate tobacco use products among college freshmen   
Rafie Boghozian, BS, MBA, David Kioko, MPH, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, MBBS, DrPH, Di Lun, Daniel Owusu, DrPH, Mary Ann Littleton, PhD and Hadii Mohammed Mamudu, PhD
Board 7
Characteristics associated with smoking initiation during young adulthood: Findings from a national cohort   
Kelvin Choi, Ph.D., M.P.H., Denise Haynie, PhD, MPH and Bruce Simons-Morton, EdD
Board 8
Teens and Tobacco:Exploring the relationship between smoking refusal efficacy, perception of peer's attitudes towards smoking, and smoking status among rural adolescents   
Robert Coffman, MPH, Christina Proctor, PhD and Jessica Legge Muilenburg, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Endorsed by: School Health Education and Services, Black Caucus of Health Workers, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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