Exposure to smoking in movies and smoking initiation among black youth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Black adolescents see more substance use in mainstream media but seem less responsive to it than other U.S. adolescents. Black-oriented media may be more personally relevant to them.

Purpose

To determine smoking exposure separately for black-oriented (BSME) and mainstream (MMSE) movies and assess their longitudinal relationships with smoking among black and other-race adolescents.

Methods

Two-wave (2007-2009) national cohort survey of 2341 nonsmoking (at baseline) U.S. adolescents (aged 13-19 years), analyzed in 2012. The surveys determined BMSE and MMSE based on respondents' exposure to random subsets of 50 movies from a contemporary sample of 95 black-oriented and 288 mainstream movies previously content-coded for smoking. Outcome was smoking initiation.<

SUBMITTER: Dal Cin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3674583 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature