ArticleTobacco control2001
News media coverage of smoking and health is associated with changes in population rates of smoking cessation but not initiation.
Article in Tobacco control, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
49 citing papers in PubMed.
- Educating smokers about their cigarettes and nicotine medications.Health education research · 2010Trial
- Random forest algorithm for predicting tobacco use and identifying determinants among pregnant women in 26 sub-Saharan African countries: a 2024 analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Determinants of tobacco use among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. A multilevel mixed-effect logistic regression model.PloS one · 2024Article
- Content analysis of Dutch newspaper coverage of three tobacco control policies, 2017-2019.BMJ open · 2023Article
- The Effects of Tobacco Coverage in the Public Communication Environment on Young People's Decisions to Smoke Combustible Cigarettes.The Journal of communication · 2022Article
- Early Perceptions of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in German-Speaking Countries: Comparative Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- Evaluating the impact of the California 1995 smoke-free workplace law on population smoking prevalence using a synthetic control method.Preventive medicine reports · 2020Article
- Media Images of Anorexia: Effects of Moderate vs. Extreme Anorexia-Related Messages on Young Women.Community mental health journal · 2020Article
- Trends in Lung Cancer and Cigarette Smoking: California Compared to the Rest of the United States.Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2019Article
- African media coverage of tobacco industry corporate social responsibility initiatives.Global public health · 2018Article
- Media Portrayal of the Nursing Homes Sector: A Longitudinal Analysis of 51 U.S. Newspapers.The Gerontologist · 2017Review
- Health Effects of Waterpipe Tobacco Use: Getting the Public Health Message Just Right.Tobacco use insights · 2017Article
- Young Adults' Risk Perceptions of Various Tobacco Products Relative to Cigarettes: Results From the National Young Adult Health Survey.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2016Article
- A population study on the time trend of cigarette smoking, cessation, and exposure to secondhand smoking from 2001 to 2013 in Taiwan.Population health metrics · 2016Article
- Measuring Exposure Opportunities: Using Exogenous Measures in Assessing Effects of Media Exposure on Smoking Outcomes.Communication methods and measures · 2016Article
- North American Magazine Coverage of Skin Cancer and Recreational Tanning Before and After the WHO/IARC 2009 Classification of Indoor Tanning Devices as Carcinogenic.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2015Article
- Methodological approaches to evaluate the impact of FDA drug safety communications.Drug safety · 2015Article
- Coverage of skin cancer and recreational tanning in North American magazines before and after the landmark 2006 International Agency for Research on Cancer report.BMC public health · 2015Article
- A Descriptive Study of Television News Coverage of Tobacco in the United States: Frequency of Topics, Frames, Exemplars, and Efficacy.Journal of health communication · 2015Article
- Reported exposures to anti-smoking messages and their impact on Chinese smoker's subsequent quit attempts.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2014Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveTo determine whether changes in news media coverage of smoking and health issues are associated with changes in smoking behaviour in the USA. DESIGN AND
main outcome measuresIssue importance in the US news media is assessed by the number of articles published annually in major magazines indexed in The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. Annual incidence rates for cessation and initiation in the USA were computed from the large, representative National Health Interview Surveys (1965-1992). Patterns in cessation incidence were considered for ages 20-34 years and 35-50 years. Initiation incidence was examined for adolescents (14-17 years) and young adults (18-21 years) of both sexes.
resultsFrom 1950 to the early 1980s, the annual incidence of cessation in the USA mirrored the pattern of news media coverage of smoking and health, particularly for middle aged smokers. Cessation rates in younger adults increased considerably when second hand smoke concerns started to increase in the US population. Incidence of initiation in young adults did not start to decline until the beginning of the public health campaign against smoking in the 1960s. Among adolescents, incidence rates did not start to decline until the 1970s, after the broadcast ban on cigarette advertising.
conclusionsThe level of coverage of smoking and health in the news media may play an important role in determining the rate of population smoking cessation, but not initiation. In countries where cessation has lagged, advocates should work to increase the newsworthiness of smoking and health issues.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.