Development and Assessment of a Teacher-led Intervention in Preventing Tobacco Use Among the Youth in Ghana

The intervention is designed for all students, including never-smokers and students at high risk for smoking. Therefore, some contents are intended to influence those high-risk youth within the larger student audience by targeting the stages of the smoking acquisition process including, preparation, initiation, experimentation, regular use, and addiction (Mayhew et al., 2000). The intervention is also focused on addressing risk factors for smoking initiation and continue use (Hansen et al., 2015; So \& Yeo, 2015). These risk factors are, therefore, grouped into four major groups namely; personal factors, behavioral factors, environmental factors and sociodemographic factors

The SHEP is the usual health and education program been done in all schools, and also has tobacco control component. This is will be used as the control for the intervention.