This article examines the evidence that supports an association between seeing smoking depictions in movies and adolescent smoking. The portrayal of tobacco use is common in movies and often is modeled by stars, who, from a social influences standpoint, should be powerful behavior change agents. The results of studies that assess audience responses to tobacco portrayal in movies are remarkably ...

BACKGROUND Smoking surveys among physicians have proved useful in highlighting the importance of physicians as healthy life style exemplars and role models in tobacco control and smoking cessation. The aim of this study was to give an overview of smoking behaviour among Estonian physicians from 1982 to 2014. METHODS Three cross-sectional postal surveys using a self-administered questionnaire ...

In the 1930s, Edward Bernays, the originator of cigarette marketing strategies still in use today, recognised the marketing power of encouraging the use of cigarettes in film, and cigarettes were made an important prop in movies. 2 This strategy stuck. Standardised assessments of movies’ content over a time period extending from the 1930s to the present day document that cigarettes and cigarett...

BACKGROUND Various pivotal stages in smoking behavior can be identified, including initiation, conversion from experimenting to established use, development of tolerance, and cessation. Previous studies have shown high heritability for age of smoking initiation and cessation; however, time-to-event genome-wide association studies aiming to identify underpinning genes that accelerate or delay th...

The study of changes in smoking behaviors over the life course is a promising line of research. This paper aims to analyze the temporal relation between family transitions (partnership formation, first childbirth, separation) and changes in smoking initiation and cessation. We propose a discrete-time logistic model to explore the timing of changes in terms of leads and lags effects up to three ...

The authors aimed to elucidate the relation of the time-dependent smoking history parameters--age at smoking initiation and smoking intensity, duration, and latency--to the risk of Warthin's tumor, a benign tumor of the salivary gland for which cigarette smoking is a strong risk factor. They studied 117 cases of Warthin's tumor and 336 matched controls included in an Israeli nationwide case-con...

In recent years, there has been a rapid proliferation of novel tobacco and nicotine products in the market, which have gained popularity among adolescents. The prevalence ever users electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) Europe those aged 10–24 ranges from 5.5% to 56.6%, with significant variations across countries. Adolescents reported several reasons for e-cig use initiation, including low harm perce...

BACKGROUND The Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) and Heaviness of Smoking Index (HSI) are extensively used methods to measure the severity of nicotine dependence among smokers. The primary objective of the study was to assess the nicotine dependence amongst currently smoking Nepalese population. METHODS A community based cross-sectional study was conducted between August and Nove...