Reducing Youth Exposure to Alcohol Ads: Targeting Public Transit

Exposure to televised alcohol ads and subsequent adolescent alcohol use.

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of televised alcohol commercials on adolescents' alcohol use. METHODS Adolescents completed questionnaires about alcohol commercials and alcohol use in a prospective study. RESULTS A one standard deviation increase in viewing television programs containing alcohol commercials in seventh grade was associated with an excess risk of beer use (44%), wine/liquor us...

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Effects of alcohol advertising exposure on drinking among youth.

OBJECTIVE To test whether alcohol advertising expenditures and the degree of exposure to alcohol advertisements affect alcohol consumption by youth. DESIGN Longitudinal panel using telephone surveys. SETTING Households in 24 US media markets, April 1999 to February 2001. PARTICIPANTS Individuals aged 15 to 26 years were randomly sampled within households and households within media market...

Public exposure to natural radiation sources (Ramsar Case Study)

Introduction: Human beings are naturally exposed to ionizing radiation in any environment. There are two main contributors to radiation exposures from natural sources: cosmic rays, Cosmo genic radionuclides, and radioactive nuclides that originated in the earth's crust. According to the latest data provided by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Rad...

Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a set of birth defects caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. At birth, children with FAS can be recognized by growth deficiency and a characteristic set of minor facial traits that tend to become more normal as the child matures. Less evident at birth—but far more devastating to FAS children and their families—are the lifelong effects of alc...