The Effects of Government Regulation on Teenage Smoking

Lewit, Eugene M.; Coate, Douglas; Grossman, Michael

doi:10.3386/w0655

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“…Subsequent research has shown that the Fairness Doctrine antismoking advertisements resulted in a decline in per capita cigarette consumption of at least 5% (2-6) and a reduction in the prevalence of teenage smoking of 3 percentage points (6). In fact, the antismoking advertisements were found to have had an effect that was nearly six times that of cigarette advertising during this period (4).…”

Section: History Current Status and Effectivenessmentioning

confidence: 95%

Mass Media Antismoking Campaigns: A Powerful Tool for Health Promotion

Siegel¹

1998

Ann Intern Med

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Cigarette advertising and promotion have been shown to influence smoking in young persons, but the powerful effect of the mass media on behavior can also be used to promote health. Several states have earmarked a portion of their cigarette excise tax revenues to fund mass media antismoking campaigns, which have been effective in reducing cigarette consumption and in helping persons quit smoking. Despite their successes, the campaigns have been hindered by tobacco industry-supported attempts to cut their funding or restrict their scope. The most aggressive campaigns, which attack the tobacco industry and challenge social norms about tobacco use and promotion, are the most controversial but also the most effective. Mass media antismoking campaigns are a promising tool for health promotion, but only if sustained funding can be guaranteed and the development of the advertisements can be protected from intrusion by political forces.

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Section: History Current Status and Effectivenessmentioning

confidence: 95%

Mass Media Antismoking Campaigns: A Powerful Tool for Health Promotion

Siegel¹

1998

Ann Intern Med

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“…Existing research has focused on their impact on adult smoking cessation or overall cigarette consumption. [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] The few studies of the impact of these campaigns on youth smoking had mixed results. Community-and school-based interventions highlighted by a mass media campaign reduced smoking initiation rates among adolescents in Vermont, New York, and Montana, [21][22][23][24][25] Minnesota, 26 North Karelia, 27 and Norway, 28 but they failed to influence smoking behavior among youths in southern California 29 or the southeastern United States.…”

Section: Michael Siegel MD Mph and Lois Biener Phdmentioning

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The impact of an antismoking media campaign on progression to established smoking: results of a longitudinal youth study

Siegel

Biener²

2000

Am J Public Health

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A B S T R A C TObjectives. We examined the impact of a statewide antismoking media campaign on progression to established smoking among Massachusetts adolescents.Methods. We conducted a 4-year longitudinal survey of 592 Massachusetts youths, aged 12 to 15 years at baseline in 1993. We examined the effect of baseline exposure to television, radio, and outdoor antismoking advertisements on progression to established smoking (defined as having smoked 100 or more cigarettes), using multiple logistic regression and controlling for age; sex; race; baseline smoking status; smoking by parents, friends, and siblings; television viewing; and exposure to antismoking messages not related to the media campaign.Results. Among younger adolescents (aged 12 to 13 years at baseline), those reporting baseline exposure to television antismoking advertisements were significantly less likely to progress to established smoking (odds ratio = 0.49, 95% confidence interval = 0.26, 0.93). Exposure to television antismoking advertisements had no effect on progression to established smoking among older adolescents (aged 14 to 15 years at baseline), and there were no effects of exposure to radio or outdoor advertisements.Conclusions. These results suggest that the television component of the Massachusetts antismoking media campaign may have reduced the rate of progression to established smoking among young adolescents. (Am J Public Health. 2000;90:380-386)

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“…[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]33,34 Importantly, however, recent research has suggested that the positive effect of state-sponsored anti-tobacco ads was manifest only at a threshold level of at least one unit of exposure over a 4-month period. 27 The implication of this threshold effect is that minimal levels of anti-tobacco advertising do not have a significant association with smoking-related outcomes.…”

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“…[13][14][15] Research from tobacco control has shown that paid anti-tobacco advertising is associated with increased antitobacco attitudes and beliefs and reduced tobacco use. [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] To the extent that obesity reflects modifiable behaviors that have similarities with smoking-related behaviors, public health anti-obesity media campaigns promise to contribute to reductions in population obesity.…”

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Public Health Obesity-Related TV Advertising

Emery¹,

Szczypka²,

Powell³

et al. 2007

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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Background-Over the past 25 years, the percent of overweight and obese adults and children in the United States has increased dramatically. The magnitude and scope of the public health threat from obesity have resulted in calls for a national comprehensive obesity prevention strategy, akin to tobacco use prevention strategies undertaken over the past two decades. The purpose of this paper is to describe and compare population exposure to paid media campaigns for tobacco and obesity prevention, draw lessons from tobacco advertising, and compare tobacco and obesity behaviors/influences to identify priorities and pitfalls for further research on obesity adverting.

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The Effects of Government Regulation on Teenage Smoking

Cited by 106 publications

References 5 publications

Mass Media Antismoking Campaigns: A Powerful Tool for Health Promotion

Mass Media Antismoking Campaigns: A Powerful Tool for Health Promotion

The impact of an antismoking media campaign on progression to established smoking: results of a longitudinal youth study

Public Health Obesity-Related TV Advertising

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