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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Barbie and Beyond -- 1 In the Presence of the Perfect Girl -- 2 Fat Talk -- 3 Are Girls Really Dieting? -- 4 Who Will I Look Like? -- 5 Mothers, Daughters, and Dieting -- 6 Looking Good among African-American Girls -- 7 What We Can Do -- Appendix A: Research Strategies -- Appendix B: Tables -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- Index

While the past 40 years have seen significant declines in adult smoking, this is not the case among young adults, who have the highest prevalence of smoking of all other age groups. At a time when just about everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, why do so many college students smoke? Is it a short lived phase or do they continue throughout the college years? And what happens after college, when they enter the "real world"? Drawing on interviews and focus groups with hundreds of young adults, Lighting Up takes the reader into their everyday lives to explore social smoking. Mimi Nicht

This qualitative study explores how college women interpret and negotiate body positivity messages that appear alongside unattainable body image ideals on social media. The sample consisted of 44 undergraduate college women between the ages of 18 and 23. Methods included semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Using content analysis, the following key themes were identified: a persistent culture of comparison online that reinforced a narrow body ideal alongside an imperative to love your body at any size; skepticism about whether the body positivity movement could create meaningful or enduring cultural change; and the use of fat talk and other self-disparaging online strategies to mitigate critique from others and elicit compliments. Results suggest that women endeavored to internalize the values of body positivity even as they struggled to enact them online. Social media, an ever-changing environment, emerged as a key social and developmental context within which emerging adults negotiate body image ideologies.

Youth-serving organizations offer young people an opportunity to gain skills and advance their knowledge of current and evolving technology through experiential learning. The key to ensuring that young people have meaningful learning experiences is directly related to the youth program leader who is responsible for designing and implementing these programs. Programs conducted by well-trained and well-prepared adults are an essential component of community-based interventions. To date, there is relatively limited research on how technology such as smart phones can be used in community-based programs and the success or failure of this as a strategy for delivering information and engaging young people in a program. In this paper, we discuss how technology was introduced into eight programs conducted by youth-serving organizations in the Southwest. We discuss the training of youth program leaders and their experience using technology at their sites, highlighting what worked and what was problematic, how challenges were overcome, and lessons learned.

INTRODUCTION: Indonesia has one of the highest male smoking rates in the world (67%) and secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure occurs in over 70% of households. To date, little research has investigated community recognition of the harms of secondhand smoke and support for a smoke-free homes (SFH) policy. This work discusses the development and implementation of a community-based SFH intervention attempting to establish SFH as a new social norm. METHODS: Research was conducted in Yogyakarta, Java. A proof-of-concept study ascertained the feasibility of mounting a community-based SFH initiative in urban neighborhoods. Educational materials on SHS were developed and pretested. An intervention was piloted and evaluated in the homes of 296 smokers residing in 4 communities. Health educators and community health volunteers were trained to implement SFH. RESULTS: Prior to the intervention, 11% of smokers did not smoke inside their home; post-intervention 54% of smokers did not smoke inside their home. The Yogyakarta District Health Office has supported large scale implementation of smoke-free homes. To date, 135 urban communities have declared themselves as having SFH. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first community-based SFH initiative to be carried out in South-East Asia. The SFH movement redefines smoking cessation as a health issue of women and children, ties family welfare to core cultural values, and offers women a leadership role in tobacco control. The sustainability of SFH in Yogyakarta has been achieved by working closely with multiple levels of government and has contributed to shifts in tobacco control policy in Indonesia.