Dr. James D. Sargent is associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. His current research involves evaluating media and marketing influences on adolescent smoking.
Summary: After assessing 250 top box-office films from 1988 to 1997, researchers discovered tobacco use in more than 85 percent of these films. Tobacco brand appearances were common even in films rated for children, and findings suggest an increase...
Source: Teen Smoking, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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