Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10472478 | Social Science & Medicine | 2005 | 20 Pages |
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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Authors
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Jocelyn Pan, Hee-Jin Jun, Theresa L. Osypuk, Karen M. Emmons,