PSYA02H3 Chapter 14: PSYAO2 Textbook Note
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The choices people make often influence their health. Most premature deaths are due to lifestyle factors. The average smoker has a 7 to 14 year shorter life span. Quitting by the age of 30 greatly reduces the likelihood that a person will die of smoking-related causes. Despite this, around 20% of canadian adults smoke. What do we know about media influences on smoking. Societal factors such as: family members smoking, personality, culture, and socioeconomic status. The more exposure the adolescents in the study had to movies that featured smoking, the more likely they were to have tried smoking. Correlations indicate that there"s an effect but it"s not necessarily causal. Policymakers and healthcare workers know that more needs to be done to decrease smoking. Examples: banning smoking in public places, steep taxes added to tobacco, warning labels. Image based warnings have a great effect (40% of canadian quitters cited the images as having an influence)
