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- Title
Predictors of U.S. Adults' Opinion Toward an R-Rating Policy for Movies With Cigarette Smoking.
- Authors
Ahuja, Nikhil; Mahmood, Asos; Kedia, Satish; Dillon, Patrick J.
- Abstract
Recently, multiple health organizations and advocacy groups have pushed for giving an R-rating for movies depicting tobacco imagery. This study examined several predictors of U.S. adults' opinion toward an R-rating policy for movies depicting cigarette smoking. We used data from the Health Information National Trends Survey (2020 cycle), for a nationally representative sample of 3,865 US adults (aged ≥ 18). The outcome variable was opinion toward an R-rating policy (support, neutral, and oppose) for movies depicting cigarette smoking. A weighted adjusted multinomial logistic regression analysis with comparisons of support versus oppose, support versus neutral, and neutral versus oppose was performed. About 48.2% of respondents were supportive of, 31.1% were neutral toward, and 20.7% were opposed to an R-rating policy. Adults aged 50 to 64 years (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 2.28, p =.008) and ≥65 years (aOR = 4.54, p <.001) (vs. 18–34 years) were more likely to support the R-rating policy than oppose it. Non-Hispanic Black respondents (vs. non-Hispanic Whites) were 1.74 times more likely to support than oppose the policy (aOR = 1.74, p =.04), whereas adults with a household annual income of US$75,000 or more (vs. <$20,000) and those with moderate (vs. liberal) political viewpoints were more likely to be neutral than oppose the policy. Former and current e-cigarette users (vs. never users) were less likely to support than oppose the policy. Tailored messaging addressing the rationale behind R-rating policy should be directed towards communities based on age, race/ethnicity, household income, e-cigarette usage, and political ideologies.
- Subjects
UNITED States; GOVERNMENT policy -- Law &; legislation; PREDICTION models; SMOKING; HEALTH; MULTIPLE regression analysis; HISPANIC Americans; ELECTRONIC cigarettes; PUBLIC opinion; INFORMATION resources; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; WHITE people; COMMUNITIES; AGE distribution; CHI-squared test; MULTIVARIATE analysis; SURVEYS; ODDS ratio; RACE; BLACK Africans; STATISTICS; MOTION pictures; COMPARATIVE studies; SOCIAL support; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; DATA analysis software; CONFIDENCE intervals
- Publication
Health Education & Behavior, 2024, Vol 51, Issue 4, p573
- ISSN
1090-1981
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/10901981241239933