Child Will Imitate Smoking Scenes in Movies - Young children who frequently watch movies with smoking scenes, will eventually have the desire to smoke. Even the smoking scenes in the movie called more influential in teenagers than sex scenes, harsh words, or violence.
"The films that contain smoking scenes greater impact if included in the category of movies for teens. More often they watch movies like that, they will feel that smoking makes them look like movie stars," said Dr.James Sargent, of Geisel School of Medicine.
Sargent and colleagues conducted a study of more than 500 best-selling movies (box office) in recent years. They want to know how often a character in the movie looks smoking. Then the researchers conducted interviews in 6500 children in the United States aged 10-14 years to, to find out what movies they watch.
The findings are published in the journal Pediatrics shows, from the film for teenagers there are 275 categories and 93 scenes of smoking scenes in movies adult category.
Impact on the children who watched the film are those emulate. Nearly 49 percent of children who are watching the scene said she tried cigarette smoking.
"Too often see smoking scenes in movies are potential factors that encourage children's smoking, especially if they've seen it early," said Dr.Brian Primack, head of research program areas of Media and Health from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Therefore, parents are advised untul more careful in selected the spectacle for the children, either on television or the movies. "Parents should be made to watch as well as restrictions limiting unhealthy foods," said Sargent.
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