Movie smoking and urge to smoke among adult smokers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Few studies have assessed the association between exposure to movie smoking and urge to smoke under real-world conditions.

Methods

We conducted exit interviews with 4,073 movie patrons, of whom 2,817 were aged 18 years or older. Some 536 were smokers and had complete data. Subjects had exited 26 movies, of which 12 contained smoking. We used least squares regression to assess the association between exposure to movie smoking and urge to smoke (scale range 0-10), controlling for movie rating, age, sex, heaviness of smoking index (HSI, range 0-6), and time since last cigarette smoked.

Results

Median age was 27 years and 52% were female. Median urge to smoke level at movie exit was 7. The dose-response between higher categories of movie smoking and median ur

SUBMITTER: Sargent JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2725006 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature