-- card: 376891 from stack: in -- bmap block id: 0 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 5566 -- name: -- part contents for background part 6 ----- text ----- Excerpt -- part contents for background part 12 ----- text ----- Science News -- part contents for background part 23 ----- text ----- 06051238 -- part contents for background part 15 ----- text ----- Menu -- part contents for background part 4 ----- text ----- • Smoking out ‘dirts’ and ‘hotshots’ If you want to prevent and reduce cigarette smoking among junior high school students, say two psychologists at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, target the “dirts” and the “hotshots.” These unflattering labels refer to adolescent peer groups with a surfeit of smokers. Peter Mosbach and Howard Leventhal directed interviews of 341 seventh-and eighth-graders in a rural community. The students identified four peer groups at school. “Dirtballs” or “freaks” (shortened to “dirts” by the researchers) were mainly boys who smoked, used other drugs, were poor students and engaged in a variety of problem behaviors. “Hotshots” were popular and academically successful, “jocks” had a strong interest in organized sports, and “regulars” were described as not belonging to any group and typical of junior-high students. These categories closely match those recently identified by other researchers in a big-city junior high school. -- part contents for background part 22 ----- text ----- • WHOLE EARTH • LEARNING • INQUIRY • Science Magazines -- part contents for background part 5 ----- text ----- 4 of 6 -- part contents for background part 30 ----- text ----- card id 60943 -- part contents for background part 31 ----- text ----- card id 377417 -- part contents for background part 32 ----- text ----- stack "WHOLE EARTH" stack "LEARNING" card id 44534 card id 67960 -- part contents for background part 27 ----- text ----- card id 67960 -- part contents for background part 28 ----- text ----- card id 57909 -- part contents for background part 29 ----- text ----- card id 68597