ArticleJournal of health communication2012
When movies matter: exposure to smoking in movies and changes in smoking behavior.
Article in Journal of health communication, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- Effects of Exposure to Gun Violence in Movies on Children's Interest in Real Guns.JAMA pediatrics · 2017Trial
- Comparison of media literacy and usual education to prevent tobacco use: a cluster-randomized trial.The Journal of school health · 2014Trial
- Exposure to tobacco imagery in streaming television is associated with increased intentions to smoke and vape.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
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- Representations of Psychoactive Drugs' Use in Mass Culture and Their Impact on Audiences.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- The interplay of parenting style and family rules about video games on subsequent fighting behavior.Aggressive behavior · 2021Article
- How Can E-Cigarette Fear Appeals Improve the Perceived Threat, Fear, Anger, and Protection Motivation of Young People.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Tobacco and Alcohol on Television: A Content Analysis of Male Adolescents' Favorite Shows.Preventing chronic disease · 2018Article
- Do you see what I see? A character analysis of health risk behaviors in television shows popular with Black adolescents in the US.Journal of children and media · 2018Article
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- Out smoking on the big screen: tobacco use in LGBT movies, 2000-2011.Tobacco control · 2014Article
- Exposure to Movie Reckless Driving in Early Adolescence Predicts Reckless, but Not Inattentive Driving.PloS one · 2014Article
- Are sexual media exposure, parental restrictions on media use and co-viewing TV and DVDs with parents and friends associated with teenagers' early sexual behaviour?Journal of adolescence · 2013Article
- Animal models of nicotine exposure: relevance to second-hand smoking, electronic cigarette use, and compulsive smoking.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2013Article
- Who is most susceptible to movie smoking effects? Exploring the impacts of race and socio-economic status.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2012Article
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- Comparing media and family predictors of alcohol use: a cohort study of US adolescents.BMJ open · 2012Article
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Abstract
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. They conducted a hazard (survival) analysis testing whether exposure to movie smoking and demographic, personality, social, and structural factors predict (a) earlier smoking onset and (b) faster transition to experimental (1-99 cigarettes/lifetime) and established smoking (>100 cigarettes/lifetime). Results suggest that higher exposure to movie smoking is associated with less time to trying cigarettes for the first time (adjusted hazard ratio = 1.66; 95% CI [1.37, 2.01]) but not with faster escalation of smoking behavior following initiation (adjusted hazard ratio = 1.53; 95% CI [0.84, 2.79]). In contrast, age, peer smoking, parenting style, and availability of cigarettes in the home were predictors of earlier onset and faster transition to established smoking. Thus, the authors concluded that the effect of exposure to mass-mediated images of smoking in movies may decline once adolescents have started to smoke, whereas peers and access to tobacco remain influential.
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