Anti-tobacco advocates have an ambitious agenda, and are backing a bevy of bills slated to appear before the Oregon Legislature in the coming weeks. But to succeed, they’ll have to overcome public perception, healthcare priority shifts and an extremely well-funded…
Daily Archives: February 10, 2011
Smokes Out Tobacco Use on TV Shows Popular Among Kids
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A review of television shows popular among young people — the group most at risk to start smoking — suggests that broadcasters aren’t doing much of a job filtering out images of tobacco use. Forty percent of the more than…
Pediatric healthcare can play a role in Curbing Tobacco Use
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Denormalization is a strategy for changing social norms and reinforcing a public perception of tobacco use as a health-compromising, socially unacceptable behavior. Karen Calabro, DrPH, Ramara Costello, and Alexander Prokhorov, MD, PhD , from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, Texas),…