preventing smoking and other drug use let the buyers beware and the interventions be apt those concerned with smoking prevention programs in the schools may be misled by a recent report that we know what works now lets make it happen the advocated social influences programs appear to have no reliable effects on regular greater than or equal to weekly smoking and only shortterm and small effects 58 percentage points on experimental less than weekly smoking to prevent smoking and other drug abuse among the children most at risk it may be crucial to use broadbased multidisciplinary interventions that go well beyond the health education classroom