Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Adolescents’ tobacco use is a cause provoking serious long-term health consequences. Thus, many social and health communication researchers have attempted to design a public communication campaign to inhibit the adoption of youth smoking behavior. The most recent anti-tobacco initiatives in the United States have been largely influenced by the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), and parallel agreements in individual states. The Master Settlement required the tobacco manufacturers to pay the 46 states $206 billion (Viscusi, 2002). The MSA included limitations on cigarette promotional techniques, media advertising, and tobacco companies’ lobbying. Since 1998 Master Settlement Agreement has been contracted, youth tobacco use has continuously decreased in late 1990. Although the general trend of youth smoking demonstrates a decrease since late 1990s, some up-turn tendency is marked in early 2000s, and various predictors measured since late 1990s to observe youth susceptibility and current smoking predictors have showed different results.
Clarifying these complicate results, this study examined the association between multiple youth cigarettes smoking-related predictors of youth susceptibility to smoking, lifetime smoking, and, current smoking based on the 1999, 2000, 2002, and 2004 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS).

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The Tampa Bay MSA is representative of "aspirational cities" in the Southeast and Southwest United States that are attempting to become global cities. Over the last twenty years, economic development initiatives in the Tampa Bay MSA have posed significant stress on the built environment. At the same time, population growth in the MSA hasincluded diversification of its migrant population. Political discontinuities within the MSA have resulted in ineffective policy policy responses to cultural diversification and development. These policy responses have increased cultural fragmentation and compromised the area's attempts to position itself within the global economy.