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Exposure to smoking in movies and smoking initiation among black youth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Black adolescents see more substance use in mainstream media but seem less responsive to it than other U.S. adolescents. Black-oriented media may be more personally relevant to them.

Purpose

To determine smoking exposure separately for black-oriented (BSME) and mainstream (MMSE) movies and assess their longitudinal relationships with smoking among black and other-race adolescents.

Methods

Two-wave (2007-2009) national cohort survey of 2341 nonsmoking (at baseline) U.S. adolescents (aged 13-19 years), analyzed in 2012. The surveys determined BMSE and MMSE based on respondents' exposure to random subsets of 50 movies from a contemporary sample of 95 black-oriented and 288 mainstream movies previously content-coded for smoking. Outcome was smoking initiation.

Results

Black teens had significantly more BMSE and MMSE than other teens (p's <0.001). At follow-up, 23.5% of black and 29.0% of nonblack respondents had tried smoking. Among black respondents, BMSE was related to smoking initiation at follow-up but MMSE was not. For other adolescents, both BMSE and MMSE were related to smoking initiation.

Conclusions

A prospective relationship was found between exposure to smoking in movies and smoking initiation. Among black adolescents in the U.S., this was only for black-oriented movies, suggesting the importance of personal relevance of the exposures. Parents, practitioners, and producers should be aware of these potential influences of media on black teen viewers.

SUBMITTER: Dal Cin S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3674583 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Exposure to smoking in movies and smoking initiation among black youth.

Dal Cin Sonya S Stoolmiller Mike M Sargent James D JD

American journal of preventive medicine 20130401 4

<h4>Background</h4>Black adolescents see more substance use in mainstream media but seem less responsive to it than other U.S. adolescents. Black-oriented media may be more personally relevant to them.<h4>Purpose</h4>To determine smoking exposure separately for black-oriented (BSME) and mainstream (MMSE) movies and assess their longitudinal relationships with smoking among black and other-race adolescents.<h4>Methods</h4>Two-wave (2007-2009) national cohort survey of 2341 nonsmoking (at baseline ...[more]

PMID: 23498099

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