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Smoking And Breast Cancer: Girls’ And Boys’ Reactions To Tailored, Internet Delivered Messages, Joan L. Bottorff, Chris G. Richardson, Rebecca Haines-Saah, John Oliff, Peter Hutchinson, Pamela A. Ratner, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Carolyn Gotay, Kenneth Johnson
Smoking And Breast Cancer: Girls’ And Boys’ Reactions To Tailored, Internet Delivered Messages, Joan L. Bottorff, Chris G. Richardson, Rebecca Haines-Saah, John Oliff, Peter Hutchinson, Pamela A. Ratner, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Carolyn Gotay, Kenneth Johnson
Nursing Presentations
Background
- Active smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) are causally linked to premenopausal breast cancer (BC).
- To date, there have been few efforts to raise awareness of active smoking and SHS as risk factors for BC.
Purpose
- To develop and evaluate messages for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal adolescent girls and boys to raise awareness about tobacco exposure as a risk factor for BC.