Smoking or My Job? US Media Coverage of Nonsmoker-Only Hiring Policies

Smoking or My Job? US Media Coverage of Nonsmoker-Only Hiring Policies

OBJECTIVES Media advocacy plays a critical role in tobacco control, shaping the content of news in ways that generate public support for tobacco control. We examined US media coverage of nonsmoker-only hiring policies, which have little US public support, exploring the extent to which tobacco control advocates and experts have engaged the media on this controversial issue. METHODS We searched...

Social media policies at US medical schools

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE Today's medical students are learning in a social media era in which patient confidentiality is at risk yet schools' social media policies have not been elucidated. The purpose of this study is to describe the presence of medical schools on top social media sites and to identify whether student policies for these schools explicitly address social media use. METHOD Websites ...

US news media coverage of tobacco control issues.

OBJECTIVE To characterise the relative amount and type of daily newspaper, local and national TV newscast, and national news magazine coverage of tobacco control issues in the United States in 2002 and 2003. DESIGN Content analysis of daily newspapers, news magazines, and TV newscasts. SUBJECTS Items about tobacco in daily newspapers, local and national TV newscasts, and three national news...

Print media coverage of research on passive smoking.

OBJECTIVE To assess the extent and content of newspaper and magazine coverage of research on passive smoking. DESIGN Content analysis of newspaper and magazine articles. SUBJECTS Articles reporting on passive smoking research published in newspapers (n = 180) or magazines (n = 92) between January 1981 and December 1994. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Numbers of articles, conclusions of articles, s...

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