French Popular Science Magazines

Teenage Exposure to Cigarette Advertising in Popular Consumer Magazines

The tobacco industry indicates that it does not advertise ih magazines that reach a high percentage of young people. To avoid reaching teens, current tobacco industry practice is to use circulation data to assess the number of young people who receive a magazine. Results from the reported study demonstrate that using circulation data is not an accurate method for estimating the size of the teen...

Misleading presentation of breast cancer in popular magazines.

CONTEXT Women commonly misunderstand their risk for breast cancer, overestimating both their risk for developing the disease at a young age and their lifetime risk. OBJECTIVE To determine whether age bias occurs in popular media coverage of breast cancer. SELECTION STRATEGY: The search term breast cancer was used to identify 389 articles in U.S. magazines with a circulation of at least 500,00...

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Turkish women's magazines: the popular meets the political.

Synopsis — This article focuses on the way concepts of feminism and femininity, often considered oppositional, intersect within two contemporary Turkish women’s magazines, Kim and Kadınca. The methodology is derived from feminist critical theory and cultural studies, and includes textual analysis of the magazines as well as structured interviews with their editors. A range of potentially compet...

Dietary supplement safety information in magazines popular among older readers.

Dietary supplements are extensively used in the United States, especially by people age 50 and over. Surveys have shown that magazines and other news media are an important source of information about nutrition and dietary supplements for the American public. It is uncertain, however, whether magazines provide their readers with adequate information about the safety aspects of supplement use. T...