Trial reportAmerican journal of preventive medicine2010
Effect of smoking scenes in films on immediate smoking: a randomized controlled study.
Trial report in American journal of preventive medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Exposure to electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) visual imagery increases smoking urge and desire.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2016Trial
- Disparities in Exposure to Tobacco on Television or Streaming Platforms.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- A Qualitative Investigation of Staff Feedback on an Online Learning Module on Smoking Cessation in a German Healthcare Company.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Youth susceptibility to tobacco use in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, 2001-2018.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- Considering Drug-Associated Contexts in Substance Use Disorders and Treatment Development.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2020Review
- Current advances in research in treatment and recovery: Nicotine addiction.Science advances · 2019Review
- The case for investigating social context in laboratory studies of smoking.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2017Review
- Beyond experimentation: Five trajectories of cigarette smoking in a longitudinal sample of youth.PloS one · 2017Article
- Discouraging the Practice of Tobacco Initiation among Children and Adolescents through Promoting of Smoke-free Films.International journal of preventive medicine · 2017Article
- How social media influence college students' smoking attitudes and intentions.Computers in human behavior · 2016Article
- Perceived social and media influences on tobacco use among Samoan youth.BMC public health · 2014Article
- The impact of media-related cognitions on children's substance use outcomes in the context of parental and peer substance use.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2014Article
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- Young adults' support for adult-ratings for movies depicting smoking and for restrictions on tobacco magazine advertising.World medical & health policy · 2013Article
- Association of established smoking among adolescents with timing of exposure to smoking depicted in movies.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2012Article
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- Government inaction on ratings and government subsidies to the US film industry help promote youth smoking.PLoS medicine · 2011Article
- Spontaneous action representation in smokers when watching movie characters smoke.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2011Article
- "Below the Line": The tobacco industry and youth smoking.The Australasian medical journal · 2011Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe National Cancer Institute has concluded that exposure to smoking in movies causes adolescent smoking and there are similar results for young adults. PURPOSE: This study investigated whether exposure of young adult smokers to images of smoking in films stimulated smoking behavior.
methods100 cigarette smokers aged 18-25 years were randomly assigned to watch a movie montage composed with or without smoking scenes and paraphernalia followed by a 10-minute recess. The outcome was whether or not participants smoked during the recess. Data were collected and analyzed in 2008 and 2009.
resultsSmokers who watched the smoking scenes were more likely to smoke during the break (OR=3.06, 95% CI=1.01, 9.29). In addition to this acute effect of exposure, smokers who had seen more smoking in movies before the day of the experiment were more likely to smoke during the break (OR=6.73, 95% CI=1.00, 45.25, comparing the top to bottom 5th percentiles of exposure). Level of nicotine dependence (OR=1.71, 95% CI=1.27, 2.32 per point on the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence scale); contemplation (OR=9.07, 95% CI=1.71, 47.99) and precontemplation (OR=7.30, 95% CI=1.39, 38.36) stages of change; and impulsivity (OR=1.21, 95% CI=1.03, 1.43) were also associated with smoking during the break. Participants who watched the montage with smoking scenes and those with a higher level of nicotine dependence were also more likely to have smoked within 30 minutes after the study.
conclusionsThere is a direct link between viewing smoking scenes and immediate subsequent smoking behavior. This finding suggests that individuals attempting to limit or quit smoking should be advised to refrain from or reduce their exposure to movies that contain smoking.
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