Sunday, 16 February 2014

Digging Deeper - Justyne Yuen-Lee, W14


A lot of research about smoking goes into its negative effects. So, researching for the answer to my question of the ineffectiveness of its advertisements is pretty difficult. To begin my trek, however, I looked up several scholarly articles on JSTOR and found several studies of smoking prevention messages targeted towards adolescents:

1.     Smoking Prevention Messages for Adolescents: How Intensity, Valence, and Recipient of Consequences Affect Attitude toward the Ad and Intent to Smoke – James Reardon and Chip Miller in the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice
2.     Industry sponsored anti-smoking ads and adolescent reactance: test of a boomerang effect by L. Henriksen, A. L. Dauphinee, Y. Wang, and S. P. Fortmann in Tobacco Control

These two scholarly sources are just a preliminary step in my search. I plan to use their sources to find more specific studies in other journals and magazines studying smoking.

I found two popular sources also:

1.     Source of Anti-Smoking Ads Influences Their Effectiveness, Study finds – Join Together Staff on drugfree.org
2.     11 Facts About Smoking on dosomething.org

I plan to use popular sources for more general understanding of what the focus of smoking is for the general public. Also, with articles written on studies, I can find the original study to use as a scholarly source. I’m planning to look for more magazine articles about smoking advertisements.

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