Biomedical subjects

Lillian M Range

Publications and source records attributed to Lillian M Range.

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Media campaign influences parents' opinions about their children and tobacco.

UNLABELLED: The study assessed the effectiveness of a media campaign in convincing parents that children are targeted by the tobacco industry and that children should be banned from tobacco use. An 800-parent sample survey was conducted prior to a statewide anti-tobacco campaign, and another survey sample of 790 parents was conducted afterward. THE RESULTS: Though parents who smoked in high school and those who did not agreed that children are targeted and should be banned from tobacco use, parents who did not smoke in high school believed it more strongly. Parents who had a history of smoking changed more on the issue of banning, perhaps because they had more room to change. The study concluded that media campaigns can change parents' attitudes.

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Public education campaign heightens awareness that youth model authorities' tobacco use.

To evaluate whether people changed their views about acceptability of authority figures smoking after an anti-tobacco initiative, randomly selected southeastern U.S. voters (801 in 2001; 806 in 2002) responded to a 20-minute telephone interview. Acceptability attitudes held steady: most (80.8%) said that any authority figures' smoking in front of youth is unacceptable, with women, minorities, and never-smokers even surer than their counterparts. However, there was a change in 2002, with respondents more strongly recognizing that youth model adults' tobacco behaviors and attitudes. An implication is that media campaigns may benefit from emphasizing that youth model adults' tobacco use.

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Anti-tobacco messages from different sources make a difference with secondary school students.

Mass media campaigns are often effective in reducing tobacco use, but research has typically focused on these campaigns without considering other sources of anti-tobacco information. The present study examined whether the number of sources of anti-tobacco information (family, sports, and other community events, advertisements, and the Internet), made a difference in use and attitudes of high school students. A representative sample of 1,151 students in grades 6 to 12 in one southeastern state were interviewed at school on cell phones provided by researchers. They reported on average 2.49 of the 4 sources of anti-tobacco information. Students who heard anti-tobacco messages from a variety of sources of information were less likely to use tobacco than students who heard anti-tobacco messages from few sources. Never-users, nonsmokers, and relatively younger youth reported more sources than ever-users, smokers, and relatively older youth. Surprisingly, those who reported more sources labeled smokers as attractive more than those who reported fewer sources. Although having a variety of sources of anti-tobacco messages is associated with less tobacco use, an implication of present results is that anti-tobacco information needs to convey the point that using tobacco is ugly.

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