Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10472478 Social Science & Medicine 2005 20 Pages PDF
Abstract
We discuss possible mechanisms that may explain the protective effect against smoking of being foreign born and being second generation with two immigrant parents, including differences in the stage of the tobacco epidemic between immigrants' countries of origin and the US, the “healthy immigrant effect”, and anti-smoking socialization in immigrant families.
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