The Relative Importance of Different Measures of Peer Smoking on Adolescent Smoking Behavior: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses of a Large British Cohort

Although univariate analyses indicate an association of friends', peer group, and year group smoking with current and subsequent smoking behavior, multivariate longitudinal analyses indicate that simple peer influence models do not completely explain adolescent smoking and that a more complex interrelationship exists between smoking, peer's smoking and peer socialization.