When Movies Matter: Exposure to Smoking in Movies and Changes in Smoking Behavior

• Published in: Journal of health communication Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 76 - 89
• Main Authors: Dal Cin, Sonya, Stoolmiller, Mike, Sargent, James D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia, PA Taylor & Francis Group 01.01.2012; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescents; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Cinema; Correlation analysis; Female; Health promotion; Health technology assessment; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Miscellaneous; Motion Pictures; Peer Group; Peers; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Smoking; Smoking - epidemiology; Smoking - psychology; Social behaviour; Social Conformity; Teenagers; Tobacco; Tobacco, tobacco smoking; Toxicology; United States - epidemiology; Human; Tobacco; Tobacco smoking; Exposure; Change; Movies; Behavior; Public health; Communication

The authors investigated the association between exposure to smoking in movies and the initiation and progression of adolescent smoking over time among 6,522 U.S. adolescents (between the ages of 10 and 14 years, at baseline) in a nationally representative, 4-wave random-digit-dial telephone survey....