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The number of articles focused on passive smoking, secondhand smoking or adolescent smoking in important Chinese newspapers from 2000 to 2008.
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ResultsA total of 1366 articles about smoking or smoking control were located (table 1). There was a significant difference in the number of articles appearing each year (pTheme of smoking-related articles from 2000 to 2008 in ChinaThe principal focuses of 1366 smoking-related articles, as judged by headline, are shown in table 1 . For each theme,...
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... A large share of the articles came out around May of each yearwhich is when the No Tobacco day of the WHO takes place -and most articles were published in regional newspapers [13]. Our findings were, in general, [25]. A plausible interpretation is that the "World No Tobacco Day" (WNTD) of May 31st attracts substantial media attention, driving media frenzy on tobacco issues during the time of May each year. ...
... Although a raft of media reports voiced the concern about children's access to E-cigarettes, scientific evidence on the health effects of consumption is further needed. For a long time, implementation of tobacco control has been criticized for not being well connected with scientific advances on the health effects of tobacco consumption [25]. As such, journalists and media professional should follow and make better use of scientific evidence to advocate for regulating E-cigarettes. ...
Background:
Electronic cigarettes (E-cigarettes) have become a debated issue for tobacco control over recent years. In this study we investigate how Chinese newspapers have covered E-cigarettes over the past ten years.
Methods:
The study analyses the salience, patterns and content of news articles pertaining to E-cigarettes in regional and national Chinese outlets. A total of 476 articles are examined via content analysis and supervised automatic text analysis. The manual content analysis generates a coding scheme, which is then validated and applied to machine learning. The whole research methodology demonstrates satisfying human-human and human-to-computer reliabilities.
Results:
The study reveals that E-cigarettes have not received enough attention in terms of its salience in the media, though the amount of coverage has been growing. A large share of the articles is published around May of each year - which is when the No Tobacco Day of the WHO takes place. The results point to four major themes on E-cigarettes: nicotine/constituents/features, tobacco control/regulation, children's use of E-cigarettes, and tobacco market/industry.
Conclusions:
Overall, E-cigarettes have not been a topic at the top of media agenda; however, we have identified a considerable growth of coverage about the potential concerns regarding young people's adoption of E-cigarettes advocated by parents and educators.
... Under the encouragement of the central government , some provincial and city governments have passed local regulations to strengthen tobacco control in public places such as public transport, cinemas and hospitals. Liu et al. reported in a letter that news coverage of tobacco issues in Chinese newspapers increased dramatically in recent years, from 43 articles in 2000 to 409 articles in 2008 [11]. However, their analysis did not take into account the growing number of newspapers included in the database in noting the reported increase, reported no coding reliability coefficient and also did not assess the " slant " of articles as to whether they were in support of or opposed to tobacco control. ...
... A total of 1149 articles published in 102 continually published newspapers were thus located and analyzed. This compared with Liu et al's 152 national and 363 local newspapers indexed at any point in their 2000-June 2008 study [11]. ...
... News coverage plays a key role in shaping public and political attitudes about tobacco control [1] . Our findings suggest that Chinese newspapers paid little attention to tobacco control issues prior to 2005, but thereafter news attention increased, which was consistent with Liu's study finding [11]. Chinese newspapers are giving increasing attention to tobacco control, but coverage remains low in comparison to the USA and Australia192021. ...
Media coverage of tobacco-related issues can potentially shape individual beliefs, attitudes and behaviors about tobacco use. This study aims to describe news coverage of tobacco control related issues in Chinese newspapers from 2000 to 2010.
All 1149 articles related to tobacco control were extracted from the Database of Chinese Important Newspapers and content analyzed for the period Jan 1, 2000 to Dec 31, 2010. The changing pattern of tobacco control topic, article type, viewpoint, and article origin, and their relationship were analysed.
News coverage of tobacco control related issues increased significantly (p < 0.01) from 2000 to 2010, with news coverage being relatively intensive in May and June (p < 0.01), around World No Tobacco Day. 24.9% (n = 286) of all articles focused on secondhand smoke, 25.3% (n = 291) warned about the dangers of active smoking, and 10.0% (n = 115) focused on prevention and cessation programs and campaigns. Tobacco control topics varied significantly between national vs city/regional newspapers (χ2 = 24.09, p = 0.002) and article types (χ2 = 193.35, p < 0.001). Articles in national newspapers had more coverage of the dangers of tobacco and on enforcing bans on tobacco-advertising. News stories centered around monitoring tobacco use and smoke free activity, while editorials focused on enforcing bans on tobacco-advertising, youth access and programs and campaigns. Letters to editors focused on the dangers of smoking, raising tax, and smoking cessation. More articles (50.4%) took an anti-tobacco position (compared with 10.5% which were pro-smoking), with the amount of negative coverage growing significantly across the decade. National articles tended to lean toward anti-tobacco, however, local articles tended mix of pro-tobacco and neutral/balance positions. Editorials seemed to be more anti-tobacco oriented, but letters to the editor tended to show a mix of anti-tobacco and pro-tobacco positions.
Chinese newspapers are giving increasing attention to tobacco control, but coverage remains lower than in the USA and Australia. Health workers need to give higher priority to efforts to increase news coverage beyond the present concentration around World No Tobacco Day and to develop strategies for making tobacco control issues more newsworthy to both national and local news outlets.
Objective:
The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent Chinese media coverage of tobacco issues in 17 Chinese cities comprises messaging known to motivate healthy behaviour.
Methods:
This study involved a content analysis of 4821 articles that contained at least one full paragraph focused on tobacco issues from newspapers published in cities that participated in the Tobacco-Free City-Gates Tobacco Control Project in China between 1 January 2008 and 30 June 2011.
Results:
The number of tobacco-focused articles increased over the study period. The number of articles varied considerably among different newspapers and cities. Education, prevention and cessation programs (35%) were the most frequent theme. There was also considerable variation in the volume of coverage each month. News articles were the most frequent article type (70%). The majority of the articles (72%) were positive for tobacco control. There were significant differences between party newspapers and local newspapers in prominence, article type, slant and fear appeal. One quarter (n=729) of the articles mentioned the severity of tobacco use, while only 10% of the articles referred to susceptibility to the threat.
Conclusions:
The coverage of events was predominantly positive toward tobacco control. However, media reports could better support tobacco control efforts if they did a better job at provoking an emotional response to the harms of tobacco use and promoting a sense among smokers that they can succeed in quitting smoking.
