Anti-Smoking Media Campaigns and Disparities in Smoking Cessation in the United States, 2001-2015.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate sociodemographic differences in the relationship between state and national anti-smoking media campaigns and cessation behaviors among adult smokers in the U.S.

Design

Repeated cross-sectional analysis.

Setting

U.S. nationally representative survey of adults ages 18 and older, 2001-2015.

Subjects

76,278 year-ago smokers from the 2001-2015 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey.

Measures

Area-level exposure to State-sponsored and "Tips from former smokers" anti-tobacco media campaigns was the primary predictor of this study. Outcome variables included: quit attempt in the past 12 months, past 30-day smoking cessation, and past 90-day smoking cessation among year-ago smokers.

Analysis

We conducted modified Poisso

SUBMITTER: Colston DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8362818 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature