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More Proof Smoking in Movies Influence Children…Reuters Health reported on January 16 that young children may be influenced to start smoking through exposure to movie characters who smoke, researchers suggest.”Exposure possibly occurring as early as ages 4 to 7 appears to have as much influence over later smoking initiation as exposure occurring when children are older,” Dr. Linda Titus-Ernstoff told Reuters Health.Titus-Ernstoff, of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and colleagues, tallied how many times 2,255 elementary school students, between 9 and 12 years old, were exposed to smoking in the movies and how this affected initiation of smoking. At the start of the study, the researchers found the children averaged about 41 smoking exposures from movies previously watched. They were then assessed for smoking exposure one year later and again two three years later. By the end of the study the children averaged about 150 smoking exposures, the investigators report in the journal Pediatrics.
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