Jump to full article: MedPage Today, 2009-07-07
Author: Chris Emery, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today
Intro: Adolescents who participate in team sports are better able to resist the temptation to smoke than nonparticipants, even when they watch movies that portray characters lighting up, a study found.
Young people who did not participate in team sports were twice as likely to become smokers than those who did join teams (95% CI, 1.47 to 2.74), according to the study published in the July 6 Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
While team sports helped counter the influence of watching smoking in movies, the likelihood of youths becoming smokers was proportional to the number of times they saw smoking depicted in movies.
Action Points
* Explain to interested parents that watching movies that depict smoking makes adolescents more likely to become smokers.
* Explain to interested parents that team sports participation seems to protect adolescents from becoming smokers. . . .
Primary source: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Source reference: Adachi-Mejia A, et al "Influence of movie smoking exposure and team sports participation on established smoking" Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2009; 163: 638-43.
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