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Smoking in Adolescence Herbert Meislich These include: How has ChinaWhat factors influence adolescents to take up smoking? Why do more girls smoke than boys? In contrast to medical orthodoxy, Smoking in Adolescencelooks at smoking from the adolescents' own points of view. What emerges is that regular smokers are seen as fun loving and nonconformist; cigarettes are a passport to a fashionable, popular and 'hard' identity Young people create, and are influenced by, complex images of smokers and nonsmokers. Barbara Lloyd