Smoking Prevention and Young People: using research to identify out‐of‐school intervention sites in three countries

This paper presents data from the first phase of a proposed 4 year smoking prevention project. In recognising a need to develop out‐of‐school interventions to complement school‐based initiatives, the pilot year of this study has been used to survey young people's participation in different activities in the three study countries. The main part of this paper reports data from Great Britain, The Netherlands and Spain showing by country, age group and smoking status participation in out‐of‐school activities. The concluding discussion examines the commonalities of findings across the three countries and implications for the selection of intervention sites.