Journal article

News on tobacco and public attitudes toward smokefree air policies in the United States

Katherine Clegg Smith, Catherine Siebel, Luu Pham, Juhee Cho, Rachel Friedman Singer, Frank Joseph Chaloupka, Michael Griswold, Melanie Wakefield

HEALTH POLICY | ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD | Published : 2008

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Smoking bans are a central component of comprehensive tobacco control programs, and an increasing number of states and localities have adopted them. Public support is critical as efforts continue to extend protection from secondhand smoke to all. We examine the relationship between state print news coverage of tobacco and public sentiment towards smoking bans. METHODS: We utilize two data sources: the February 2002 Current Population Survey Tobacco Use Supplement, and articles from 2 months in a database comprised of content-analyzed newspaper articles on tobacco from all daily U.S. newspapers. We control for demographic and state-level tobacco covariates, and use logistic regres..

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