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Study: Children Who See On-Screen Smoking Are More Likely to Try Smoking
Jump to full article: WebMD, 2008-01-07
Author: Miranda Hitti WebMD Medical News
Intro: Nearly a third of kids aged 9-12 who start smoking do so because they saw movies in which characters smoked, according to new research on movies, children, and smoking.
The study, published today in Pediatrics, comes from Dartmouth Medical School Professor Linda Titus-Enrstoff, PhD, and colleagues.
"The take-home message from our study is that the influence of viewing smoking in the movies starts much earlier than previously thought,"�Titus-Ernstoff tells WebMD via email. "Also, most of children's exposure to movie smoking comes from youth-rated movies (G, PG, PG-13), so simply preventing kids from watching R-rated movies won't protect them from movie smoking exposure."
Titus-Ernstoff and colleagues studied more than 2,200 kids aged 9-12 in New Hampshire and Vermont.
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