PEDIATRICS Vol. 116 No. 5 November 2005, pp. 1183-1191 (doi:10.1542/10.1542/peds.2005-0714)
Exposure to Movie Smoking: Its Relation to Smoking Initiation Among US Adolescents
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* Departments of Pediatrics
Community and Family Medicine
|| Anesthesia
Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire
# Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
¶ Westat, Rockville, Maryland
Objective. Regional studies have linked exposure to movie smoking with adolescent smoking. We examined this association in a representative US sample.
Design/Methods. We conducted a random-digit-dial survey of 6522 US adolescents aged 10 to 14 years. Using previously validated methods, we estimated exposure to movie smoking, in 532 recent box-office hits, and examined its relation with adolescents having ever tried smoking a cigarette.
Results. The distributions of demographics and census region in the unweighted sample were almost identical to 2000 US Census estimates, confirming representativeness. Overall, 10% of the population had tried smoking. Quartile (Q) of movie smoking exposure was significantly associated with the prevalence of smoking initiation: 0.02 of adolescents in Q1 had tried smoking; 0.06 in Q2; 0.11 in Q3; and 0.22 in Q4. This association did not differ significantly by race/ethnicity or census region. After controlling for sociodemographics, friend/sibling/parent smoking, school performance, personality characteristics, and parenting style, the adjusted odds ratio for having tried smoking were 1.7 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.1, 2.7) for Q2, 1.8 (95% CI: 1.2, 2.9) for Q3, and 2.6 (95% CI: 1.7, 4.1) for Q4 compared with adolescents in Q1. The covariate-adjusted attributable fraction was 0.38 (95% CI: 0.20, 0.56), suggesting that exposure to movie smoking is the primary independent risk factor for smoking initiation in US adolescents in this age group.
Conclusions. Smoking in movies is a risk factor for smoking initiation among US adolescents. Limiting exposure of young adolescents to movie smoking could have important public health implications.
Key Words: adolescent smoking • media impact
Abbreviations: RDD, random-digit-dial • OR, odds ratio • CI, confidence interval
Accepted May 3, 2005.
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