This study assumed different impacts of the prohibition of smoking forced on
adolescents on the adolescent and adult intent to smoke in a social environment
allowing adults to choose to smoke or not. Under this assumption, it verified the
differences in impacts of various variables that affect the intent to smoke among
different generations by surveying high schoolers, university students aged 25 or
below and employees aged 26 or above based on the theory of planned behavior.
Based on the results, the variables related to non-smoking behaviors differed by
generation in terms of awareness. It is noticeable that the expectation to stop
smoking is the most influential factor to generate the intent to stop smoking
among all generations. Especially, the intent to stop smoking had a continued,
from current to future, impact on the intent to remain a non-smoking
person. Accordingly, the social efforts to help recognize the expectation to remain
a non-smoking person such as an anti-smoking campaign as an intervention shall
be designed in a sophisticated way considering the characteristics of generations
and smoking behaviors.