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Compiled by Mimi Nichter and Rachel Casiday

 

Note: This is mostly qualitative studies.

 

Amos, A., Wiltshire, S., Bostock, Y., Haw, S. & McNeill, A. (2004). ‘You can’t go without a fag…you need it for your hash’-a qualitative exploration of smoking, cannabis and young people. Addiction, 99, 77-81.

 

Black, P.W. The anthropology of tobacco use: Ethnographic data and theoretical issues. Journal of Anthropological Research (1984), 40, 475-503.

 

Denscombe, Martyn. Uncertain identities and health-risking behavior: the case of young people and smoking in late modernity. British Journal of Sociology, 52, 2001, 157-177.

 

Gray, D., Amos, A., & Currie, C. (1997). Decoding the image—consumption, young people, magazines, and smoking. Health Education Research, 12, 505-17.

 

Hall, R L, Viles, C A, Lichtenstein, E, Glasgow, R E, and Lopez, K L. Rapid assessment procedures to describe tobacco control practices at sites managed by Indian tribes. Tobacco Control, 1995, 4:156-161.

 

Johnson, Joy, Bottorffa, Joan, Moffat, Barbara, Ratnerb, Pamela, Shovellerc, Jean, and Lovato, Chris. Tobacco dependence: adolescents’ perspectives on the need to smoke. Social Science and Medicine, 2003, 56(7): 1481-1492.

 

Kobus, Kim. Peers and adolescent smoking. Addiction, 98 (Suppl 1), 37-55), May 2003.

 

Lloyd, J., & Lucas, K. (1998). Smoking in adolescence: Images and identities. London: Routledge Press.

 

Luke, D., Allen, P., Arian, G., Crawford, M., Headen, C., Spigner, et al. Teens’ images of smoking and smokers. Public Health Reports, 2001, 116 (1): S194-202.

 

Marshall, M., Ames, G., and L.A. Bennett. Anthropological perspectives on alcohol and drugs at the turn of the new millelennium. Social Science and Medicine, 2001, 53(2): 153-164.

 

McFadden, L., A. Amos, G. Hastings, E. Parkes. ‘They look like my kind of people’-perceptions of smoking images in youth magazines. Social Science and Medicine, 2003, 56, 491-499.

 

Mermelstein, R., and the Tobacco Control Network Writing Group. Explanation of Ethnic and Gender Differences in Youth Smoking: A multi-site, qualitative investigation. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 1999, 1:S91-S98.

 

Michell L. and P. West.  Peer pressure to smoke: the meaning depends on the method. Health Education Research, 11:1, 1996, pp. 39-49.

 

Michell, L. & Amos, A. Girls, pecking order, and smoking. Social Science and Medicine, 1997, 44(12), 1861-1869.

 

Nichter, Mark. Smoking: what does culture have to do with it? Addiction, 98 (Suppl 1), 139-147, May 2003.

 

Nichter, Mark, Nichter, Mimi, Thompson, P.J., Shiffman, S., & Moscicki, A. (2002). Using qualitative research to inform survey development on nicotine dependence among adolescents. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 68 (Supplement), S41-S56.

 

Nichter, Mimi, Mark Nichter, N. Vuckovic, L. Tesler, S. Adrian, and C. Ritenbaugh.  Smoking as a Weight Control Strategy among Adolescent Females and Young Women: A Reconsideration.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2004, 18:305-325.

 

Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, M. Nichter, N. Vuckovic, et al. Smoking experimentation and initiation among adolescent girls: qualitative and quantitative findings. Tobacco Control 1997; 6:285-295.

 

Nichter, Mark, Quintero, G., Nichter, Mimi, Mock, J., & Shakib, S.. Qualitative Research: Contributions to the study of drug use, drug abuse, and drug user(r)-related interventions. Substance Use & Misuse, 2004, 39, 1907-1969.

 

Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, Mark, Vuckovic, N., Tesler, L., Adrian, S., and Ritenbaugh, C. (2004) Smoking as a weight control strategy among adolescent girls and young women: A reconsideration. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 18 (3), 2004, 305-324.

 

Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, Mark, Lloyd-Richardson, E., Flaherty, B. et al. Gendered dimensions of smoking among college students. Journal of Adolescent Research, 2006, in press.

 

Pavis, S. Cunningham-Burley, and A. Amos. Health related behavioral change in context: Young people in transition. Social Science and Medicine, 1998, 47:10, 1407-1418.

 

Quintero, G., and Davis, S. Why do teens smoke? American Indian and Hispanic Adolescents’ perspectives on functional values and addiction. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2002, 16(4): 439-457.

 

Quintero, G., and Nichter, Mark. The semantics of addiction: Moving beyond expert models to lay understandings. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1996, 28:219-228.

 

Singer, Merrill. Toward a bio-cultural and political economic integration of alcohol, tobacco and drug studies in the coming century. Social Science and Medicine, 2001,

 

Stromberg, P., Nichter, Mark & Nichter, Mimi (2006). Taking play seriously: Low level smoking among college students. Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry, in press.

 

Wakefield, Melanie, Brian Flay, Mark Nichter, & Gary Giovino. Role of the media in influencing trajectories of youth smoking. Addiction, 2003, 98 (Suppl 1), 79-10553(2): 199-213.

 

Wilms, D. and K. Stebbins, eds. Anthropology of smoking: Theme Issue. Social Science & Medicine, 1991, 33(12).

 

International Tobacco

 

Briggs, V L, Lindorf, K J, and Ivers, R G. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and tobacco. Tobacco Control, 2003, 12 (Suppl 2): 5-8.

 

Gilman, Sander L, Zhou, Xun, and Zun, Xhou (eds) (2004). Smoke: A Global History of Smoking. London: Reaktion Books Ltd.

 

Kaufman, Nancy and Nichter, Mimi. The Marketing of Tobacco to Women: Global Perspectives. Women and the Tobacco Epidemic, ed. J. Samet and S.Yoon, World Health Organization, Geneva, Forthcoming, 2001.

 

Loker, WM. The rise and fall of flue-cured tobacco in the Copan Valley and its environmental and social consequences. Human Ecology, 2005, 33 (3): 299-327.

 

Marshall, Mac. Tobacco use and abuse in Micronesia: A preliminary discussion. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1981, 49: 885-893.

 

Marshall, Mac. Tobacco Prevention in the Federated States of Micronesia. Drug and Alcohol Review, 1997, 16, 411-419.

 

Marshall, Mac. Social and cultural patterns of tobacco use: An international and historical perspective. Journal of Substance Use, 2000, Supplement 5: 155-158.

 

Marshall, Mac. Carolina in the Carolines: A Survey of Patterns and Meanings of Smoking on a Micronesian Island. 2005, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 19(4),

365-382.

 

Mehl, G., Seimon, T., and P. Winch. Funerals, big matches and jolly trips: ‘Contextual spaces’ of smoking risk for Sri Lankan adolescents. Anthropology and Medicine, Vol. 6, No.3, 1999. 

 

Morrow, Martha et al. Smoking and young women in Vietnam: the influence of normative gender roles. Social Science and Medicine, 2002, 55, 681-690.

 

Nichter, Mark and Cartwright, Liz. Saving the children for the tobacco industry. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 1991, 5(3):236-256.

 

Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, Mark, and D. Van Sickle. Popular perceptions of tobacco products and patterns of use among male college students in India. Social Science & Medicine, 2004, 59: 415-431.

 

Poland, B, Frohlich, K, Haines, R J, Mykhalovskiy, E, Rock, M, and R Sparks.

The social context of smoking: the next frontier in tobacco control? Tobacco Control, 2006; 15: 59 - 63.

 

Reid, Roddey (2005). Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-smoking Campaigns in California, France, and Japan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

 

Smith KC, McLeod K, and Wakefield M. Australian letters to the editor on tobacco: Triggers, rhetoric, and claims of legitimate voice. Qualitative Health Research, 2005, 15 (9): 1180-1198.

 

Stebbins, Kenyon. Tobacco or health in the Third World: A Political Economy Perspective with Emphasis on Mexico. International Journal of Health Sciences, 1987, 17(3), 521-536.

 

Stebbins, Kenyon. Transnational tobacco companies and health in underdeveloped countries: Recommendations for avoiding an epidemic. Social Science and Medicine, 1990, 30(2): 227-235.

 

Stebbins, Kenyon. Making a killing south of the border:Transnational cigarette companies in Mexico and Guatemala. Social Science & Medicine, 1994, 38(1):105-115.

 

Stebbins, Kenyon. Going like gangbusters: Transnational tobacco companies “making a killing” in South America. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2001, 15(2): 147-170.

 

Wilbert, Johannes. Tobacco and shamanism in South America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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