HOW AN UNHEALTHY PRODUCT IS SOLD - CIGARETTE ADVERTISING IN MAGAZINES, 1960-1985
HOW AN UNHEALTHY PRODUCT IS SOLD - CIGARETTE ADVERTISING IN MAGAZINES, 1960-1985
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1460-2466.1987.tb01010.x
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发表时间:
1987-09-01
影响因子:
7.9
通讯作者:
MACCOBY, N
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作者:
ALTMAN, DG;SLATER, MD;MACCOBY, N
The decision to adopt, maintain, or quit cigarette smoking is intluenced by a variety of physiological, psychological, social, and environmental forces (6, 14, 19). In recent years, there has been increasing interest, if not acrimonious debate, on the role of cigarette advertising in the adoption of smoking (19). In popular magazines, such ads have existed since the turn of the century and by 1984 were the leading venue for cigarette advertising, accounting for 20 percent of all expenditures (17). Several reports have documented recent dramatic increases in the number of ads (5, 18) and a proportionately larger increase in magazines with youth and women readerships (1). In the face of public concern about the health hazards of smoking and the decreasing per capita smoking rates, the findings of these studies suggest that the tobacco industry has attempted to increase cigarette consumption among populations that traditionally have been light smokers (eg, women and youth) and to maintain demand among current smokers.Although this line of research has increased our understanding of the quan-tity of cigarette advertising, it has not addressed empirically the question of bow tobacco advertisers try to persuade people-particularly women and youth-to smoke when the dangers of smoking are widely recognized. One