Teen Smoking
Teen Smoking | Contemporary Films Often Advertise Tobacco Brands
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...
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Table of Contents
- Teen Smoking: An Overview
- Teen Smoking Is a Serious Problem
- Antismoking Efforts Should Target Both Adults and Teens
- Laws to Prevent Youth Access to Cigarettes Are Ineffective
- Antismoking Campaigns Make Smoking More Attractive to Teens
- Countermarketing Campaigns Can Reduce Teen Smoking
- State Antismoking Programs Work
- Government Antismoking Campaigns Are Socialist Propaganda
- Television Viewing May Encourage Youth Smoking
- Contemporary Films Often Advertise Tobacco Brands
- Tobacco Advertising Is Not Solely Responsible for Teen Smoking
- High Schools Should Accommodate Teen Smokers
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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