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“Tired of watching customers walk out the door because of the smoke”: a content analysis of media coverage of voluntarily smokefree restaurants and bars

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Title
“Tired of watching customers walk out the door because of the smoke”: a content analysis of media coverage of voluntarily smokefree restaurants and bars
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BMC Public Health, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-2094-6
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Patricia A. McDaniel, Naphtali Offen, Valerie Yerger, Susan Forsyth, Ruth E. Malone

Abstract

News media are key sources of information regarding tobacco issues, and help set the tobacco control policy agenda. We examined US news coverage of voluntarily smokefree restaurants and bars in locales without mandatory policies to understand how such initiatives are perceived. We searched three online media databases (Access World News, Lexis Nexis, and Proquest) for all news items, including opinion pieces, published from 1995 to 2011. We coded retrieved items quantitatively, analyzing the volume, type, provenance, prominence, and content of news coverage. We found 986 news items, most published in local newspapers. News items conveyed unambiguous support for voluntarily smokefree establishments, regardless of venue. Mandatory policies were also frequently mentioned, and portrayed positively or neutrally. Restaurant items were more likely to mention health-related benefits of going smokefree, with bar items more likely to mention business-related benefits. Voluntary smokefree rules in bars and restaurants are regarded by news media as reasonable responses to health and business-based concerns about worker and customer exposure to secondhand smoke. As efforts continue to enact comprehensive smokefree policies to protect all in such venues, the media are likely to be supportive partners in the advocacy process, helping to generate public and policymaker support.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Malaysia 1 3%
Unknown 37 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 10 26%
Researcher 4 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 8%
Student > Bachelor 3 8%
Librarian 2 5%
Other 6 16%
Unknown 10 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 8%
Psychology 3 8%
Other 8 21%
Unknown 9 24%
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