Movie smoking and youth initiation: parsing smoking imagery and other adult content.

OBJECTIVES: To isolate the independent influence of exposure to smoking and other adult content in the movies on youth smoking uptake. METHODS: We used discrete time survival analysis to quantify the influence of exposure to smoking and other adult content in the movies on transitioning from (1) clo...

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Main Authors: Matthew C Farrelly, Kian Kamyab, James Nonnemaker, Erik Crankshaw, Jane A Allen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3522606?pdf=render