ArticleJournal of public health (Oxford, England)2020
A content analysis of tobacco and alcohol audio-visual content in a sample of UK reality TV programmes.
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- Impact of Smoking and Vaping in Films on Smoking and Vaping Uptake in Adolescents: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2022Pooled it
- Exposure to tobacco, alcohol and 'Junk food' content in reality TV programmes broadcast in the UK between August 2019-2020.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Exposure of 4-year to 24-year olds to tobacco imagery on prime-time Chilean television.Tobacco control · 2023Article
- A content analysis of 'junk food' content in children's TV programmes: a comparison of UK broadcast TV and video-on-demand services.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- Underage Adolescents' Reactions to Adverts for Beer and Spirit Brands and Associations with Higher Risk Drinking and Susceptibility to Drink: A Cross-Sectional Study in the UK.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2022Article
- Tobacco and alcohol content in soap operas broadcast on UK television: a content analysis and population exposure.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
- A Content Analysis and Population Exposure Estimate Of Guinness Branded Alcohol Marketing During the 2019 Guinness Six Nations.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2021Article
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backgroundExposure to tobacco and alcohol content in audio-visual media is a risk factor for smoking and alcohol use in young people. We report an analysis of tobacco and alcohol content, and estimates of population exposure to this content, in a sample of reality television programmes broadcast in the UK.
methodsWe used 1-minute interval coding to quantify tobacco and alcohol content in all episodes of five reality TV programmes aired between January and August 2018 (Celebrity Big Brother; Made in Chelsea; The Only Way is Essex; Geordie Shore and Love Island), and estimated population exposure using viewing data and UK population estimates.
resultsWe coded 5219 intervals from 112 episodes. Tobacco content appeared in 110 (2%) intervals in 20 (18%) episodes, and alcohol in 2212 (42%) intervals and in all episodes. The programmes delivered approximately 214 million tobacco gross impressions to the UK population, including 47.37 million to children; and for alcohol, 4.9 billion and 580 million respectively.
conclusionTobacco, and especially alcohol, content is common in reality TV. The popularity of these programmes with young people, and consequent exposure to tobacco and alcohol imagery, represents a potentially major driver of smoking and alcohol consumption.
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