Smoking in movies and adolescent smoking initiation: longitudinal study in six European countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Longitudinal studies from the U.S. suggest a causal relationship between exposure to images of smoking in movies and adolescent smoking onset.

Purpose

This study investigates whether adolescent smoking onset is predicted by the amount of exposure to smoking in movies across six European countries with various cultural and regulatory approaches to tobacco.

Methods

Longitudinal survey of 9987 adolescent never-smokers recruited in the years 2009-2010 (mean age=13.2 years) in 112 state-funded schools from Germany, Iceland, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom (UK), and followed up in 2011. Exposure to movie smoking was estimated from 250 top-grossing movies in each country. Multilevel mixed-effects Poisson regressions were performed in 2012 to

SUBMITTER: Morgenstern M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3616269 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature