“…Among young New Zealand (NZ) adolescents aged 13 years, friendship and wanting to join in were given as the two most frequent reasons to begin smoking, followed by relaxation and helping to stop worrying about things, both of which were rated more highly than image as a reason to smoke (Stanton, Mahalski, McGee, & Silva 1993). There is some evidence to indicate that this association between smoking and stress may be stronger among adolescent girls than among boys (Booker et al, 2007;Byrne & Mazanov, 2003), although not all studies have found this gender difference (Wills, Sandy, & Yaeger, 2002).…”