ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2021
Tobacco Magazine Advertising Impacts Longitudinal Changes in the Number of Tobacco Products Used by Young Adults.
Article in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Evidence of Youth-Appealing Cigarette Advertising Tactics from a Randomized, Controlled Experiment.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022Trial
- Exploring social and environmental factors contributing to smoking initiation among Thai adolescents using advanced feature selection techniques.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2025Article
- IQOS print magazine advertising characteristics and reach before and after FDA authorisation as a modified risk tobacco product.Tobacco control · 2024Article
- Flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems ads (2019-2020) on traditional U.S. Media by audience demographics.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- The Landscape of Cigar Marketing in Print Magazines from 2018-2021: Content, Expenditures, Volume, Placement and Reach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThe present study examined the longitudinal associations between exposure to tobacco advertisements in magazines popular among young adults and changes in the number of tobacco products used by young adults.
methodsParticipants were 4,824 students from 24 Texas colleges participating in a longitudinal study. Tobacco advertisements in 11 magazines, collected from 2015 to 2017, were objectively assessed and young adults self-reported the frequency of reading each magazine on five biannual surveys from 2015 to 2017. The objective and self-reported measures were multiplied to create a tobacco advertisement exposure score. Growth curve models were used to determine if exposure to tobacco advertisements in magazines predicted changes in the number of tobacco products used across the 2-year period, controlling for sociodemographic factors, ever tobacco use, recall of tobacco advertisements on the internet, and personality characteristics.
resultsYoung adults with more exposure to tobacco advertisements reported a slower decline in the number of tobacco products they used across time.
conclusionsTobacco advertising in magazines contributes to the continuation of single-product and polyproduct use among young adults. Findings highlight the need for additional federal regulations limiting advertisements for all types of tobacco products in magazines, particularly those popular among young adults, the youngest legal targets of the tobacco industry.
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