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Show r Tlit Daily Utah Chronldt, Wrtntsday, Octobtr 7, 1 Friends influence smoking habit becomes sanctioned behavior within some circles and not in others. How parents dealt with smoking within the family also affected adolescent behavior, the study showed. A negative attitude apparently is not a deterrent, since both smokers and said their parents were opposed to their Teenagers are more likely to smoke if their .close friends smoke, a University study suggests. In a study of 62 college students, psychology graduate student Robert B. Handley found that the influence of a significant friend and the smoking status of closest friends in high school have the greatest impact on determining whether an adolescent smokes. Questionnaires and interviews examined students smoki ng histories and the influence of several factors: peer and family modeling of smoking: parental approach to smoking; relationship with parents; and rebelliousness of adolescent peers. Peer modeling ranked highest in influence. Most smokers. Handley found, picked up the habit between age I6and 18 "a time when eers exert the greatest influence." Of the 62 students interviewed. 52 had smoked one or more times at the median age of 13. Their principal reason was Yui iosity" and they generally shared the first cigarette with a had become regular smokers during friend. Only and most rejxmed xer influence as the major adolescence, reason for picking up the habit. Handley said research on prevention should examine imitation among adolescent friends and why smoking 32 non-smoke- rs , smoking. Handley found that parents could exert some influence if they intervened before the teen years when kids are likely to experiment. Children of parents who consistently discouraged smoking during adolescence were also less likely to smoke. Family models didn't influence smoking as much as expected, according to the study. Families may oixrate more indirectly by influencing the teen's selection of jxrrs who might or might not smoke. Handley said. While rebelliousness and antisocial characteristics are significant factors in smoking, the study didn't show them as making much difference in a teen's decision to smoke. I landley notes that since he sampled a college population, the degree of rebelliousness may have been less than for ally oriented gioups. His study did show, howevet. that smokers tended to ixiform worse in school than non-academ- ic London tv crew films in SLC A BBC television network production crew from is in Salt Lake City this week preparing an in-dep- th ultra-high-ener- &gg Because Great Jeans Don't Have to Cost a Lot a new pair of jeans but up to $50 price tag? Then Planning on buying can't afford the try the Loft and slip into our Tres Jolie jeans with a fitting price tag of $20 or $22. In a wide variety of styles. Tres Jolie fits the way a jean should . . . great. Select from basic, pearl snap accented, belted western, carpenter and computer stitched styles with pocket details. In 3 from Loft Sportswear. 6-1- London report on the "FIv's Eye." a unique astrophysics observatory. "Flv's Eve" is the most advanced system in the world fori cosmic rays and has been tracking develojied by I'niversiiy scientists, headed by Dr. George L. Cassiday. assoc rate professor of physics. d The nickname derives from the large the which scan mirrors sky likt'thecomtouiuieyesof a fly. located on a desert hill at the I'.S. Army's The observatory, Dugway Proving Ground, uses computers to record niillionth-of-a-se- c ond flashes of fluorescent light from cosmic ra s striking the Earth's atmosphere. y The information will tell how and w here cosmic ias are made, as well as prov ide data to weed out particle plnsics. conflicting theories of high-energ- y Potentially, ihrrxpei inienis may provide adirec ttestof the "big bang" thcti y of the origin of the universe. Tres Jolie: ZCMI 31 dish-shaiM'- high-energ- |
