Young Britons see significantly more on-screen smoking in movies than their US peers, finds research published ahead of print in the journal Tobacco Control. The UK film classification system, which rates more films as suitable for young people than its US counterpart, is to blame, say the authors.
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A new research study suggests that maternal smoking may increase the level of distress in newborns. The research was published in the October 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry.
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Since the law banning smoking in public places such as bars and restaurants in Spain was enforced in January 2006, 5 percent of waiters have stopped smoking and the number of cigarettes smoked has fallen by almost 9 percent. A new study led by researchers from the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) has shown that the proportion of smokers strongly addicted to nicotine has halved as a result of the law.
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Research from Purdue University finds that personality traits associated with chronic worrying can lead to earlier death, at least in part because these people are more likely to engage in unhealthy behaviors such as smoking, drinking, and drug abuse.
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Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School have found that movie characters who smoke cigarettes—regardless of whether they are heroes or villains—influence teens to try smoking. Susanne Tanski, the lead author of the study, said that previous studies have found a link between smoking in movies and the initiation of smoking by adolescents, and she and her colleagues wanted to “dig deeper into the data to see if the type of character who is smoking matters. Is it the ‘good guys’ or ‘bad guys’ that have more of an influence?”
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