Cancer Epidemiology

Investigators at University of South Carolina have published new data on cancer epidemiology

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 26th, 2010

In this recent study, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To determine whether exposure to smoking imagery in films predicts smoking onset among never-smoking Mexican adolescents. The analytic sample was comprised of 11- to 14-year-old secondary school students who reported never having tried smoking at baseline, 83% (1,741/2,093) of whom were successfully followed-up after 1 year."

"Exposure to 42 popular films that contained smoking was assessed at baseline, whereas smoking behavior and risk factors were assessed at baseline and at follow-up. Logistic regression was used to estimate bivariate and adjusted relative risks (ARR) of trying smoking and...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-01-26)

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