Potential roles of school administrators and community-residing adults in tobacco use prevention in Nigerian college students: a viewpoint

Tobacco use is a key risk factor for the development of non-communicable diseases such as coronary heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. On May 31 every year, World No Tobacco Day is celebrated to draw attention to the health risks and other risks related to tobacco use and to campaign for effective policies to minimize tobacco use. In this paper, we address important issues related to tobacco use, and highlight the potential roles of school administrators and community-residing adults in supporting college students in Nigeria in refraining from tobacco use. We argue that various stakeholders, including school administrators and community-residing adults, have important roles to play in providing community- and school-level support to college students to enable them to refrain from tobacco use. However, research is needed to empirically measure whether and how school administrators and community-residing adults have helped to reduce tobacco use in college students in Nigeria.

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The Modern Knight Errant

No Game for Boys to Play ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653709.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 9-27

Author(s):

Kathleen Bachynski

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

High School ◽

School Administrators ◽

Military Leadership ◽

School Level ◽

Anglo Saxon ◽

High School Level ◽

Tackle Football ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Future Business

This chapter examines the rise of organized American tackle football for high school and college students in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The sport became most prominently associated with white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant students at elite colleges and universities. Early safety debates turned on whether football’s physical dangers were uncivilized and “brutish,” or whether exposure to its risks fostered American ideals of civilized manliness. These ideals were in turn intertwined with dominant understandings of race, gender, and national identity. School administrators and other leaders, including President Theodore Roosevelt, saw football as preparing boys for future business and military leadership. As a consequence, they contended that the sport’s perceived violence was civilized and conferred moral benefits upon players. By the early twentieth century, football was firmly established in elite American colleges and expanding at the high school level.

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Factors Associated with the Adoption of Tobacco Cessation Programmes in Schools

The Journal of Smoking Cessation ◽

10.1017/jsc.2015.17 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 55-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Melissa A. Little ◽

Pallav Pokhrel ◽

Steve Sussman ◽

Karen J. Derefinko ◽

Zoran Bursac ◽

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Keyword(s):

Tobacco Use ◽

Tobacco Cessation ◽

Community Organization ◽

School Level ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Tobacco Prevention ◽

Tobacco Use Cessation ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Tobacco Use Prevention ◽

Tobacco Education

Background: Although there are now a number of evidence-based tobacco use cessation programs available for dissemination, almost all adolescent tobacco cessation research comprises efficacy and effectiveness studies. As a result, there is a need for more research to guide the scaling up of these programs.Methods: The current study utilized data from a cross-sectional sample of 205 administrators and tobacco prevention program coordinators in school districts and county offices of education throughout California, to explore factors that affect the adoption of tobacco cessation programs in schools.Results: We found that several characteristics of the community, organization and individual respondent were associated with the adoption of evidence-based tobacco cessation programs in schools, including identifying tobacco use prevention as a community priority, having school-level SUP coordinators, greater coordinator effort devoted to tobacco use prevention, having a program champion, and currently receiving TUPE funds (all ps < .05).Conclusions: Although the availability of dedicated tobacco education funds is an important factor in schools adopting tobacco cessation programs with proven effectiveness, our results suggest that strengthening education agencies' capacity to implement prevention programming, through dedicated resources and personnel, has the potential to lead to increased adoption of tobacco cessation programs.

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