Social Psychological Factors in Teen and Adult Smoking

This longitudinal study follows a community sample of midwestern adults and their children to chart trajectories of cigarette smoking, predictors of smoking transitions, and pathways underlying the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior.

Chassin, L., Presson, C., Sherman, S.J., & Kim, K. (2003). Historical changes in cigarette smoking and smoking-related beliefs over two decades in a midwestern community. Health Psychology, 22, 347-354.

Chassin, L., Presson, C.,C., Pitts, S., & Sherman, S.J. (2000). The natural history of cigarette smoking from adolescence to adulthood in a Midwestern community sample: Multiple trajectories and their psychosocial correlates. Health Psychology, 19. 223-231.

Laurie Chassin & Clark C. Presson, Investigators, Arizona State University
Steven J. Sherman, Investigator, Indiana University