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Chapter and Conference Paper
Do parents and children know each other’s smoking experience and attitudes towards children’s smoking?
In 1994, a survey on youth smoking and health in Hong Kong showed that 29% of junior secondary-school students (mostly aged 12–15 years) had ever smoked cigarettes. More than half had smoked their first cigare...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Living with smoking grandparents and upper respiratory symptoms in children aged 3–6 years in Hong Kong
In 1992–93, a follow-up study was carried out on a cohort of children who had taken part in a survey on breast-feeding and fertility in Hong Kong in 1988–89 (T.H. Lam et al., unpublished data). The aim of the fol...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tobacco advertisements were associated with positive attitudes to smoking among children who had never smoked
Many studies have shown that tobacco advertisements and positive attitudes to smoking, as well as other factors such as family smoking and peer influence, are associated with the smoking behaviour of children....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A randomized controlled trial of smoking cessation in Government out-patient clinics in Hong Kong
A review of the smoking cessation pattern in Hong Kong in 1984–90 reveals that the role of doctors remains static. Only 25% of smokers quit on a doctor’s advice (Lam et al., 1994). Very few facilities such as smo...