COMMENT-ALCOHOL ADVERTISING IN MAGAZINES AND YOUTH READERSHIP: ARE YOUTHS DISPROPORTIONATELY EXPOSED?/REPLY TO SIEGEL ET AL.: ALCOHOL ADVERTISING IN MAGAZINES AND DISPROPORTIONATE EXPOSURE

This article investigates the relationship between alcohol advertising in magazines and youth readership, while controlling for a set of magazine and readership variables related to the demand for advertising space. It reconstructs and reanalyzes a data set including count data for alcohol ads place...

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Published in:Contemporary economic policy 2008-07, Vol.26 (3), p.482
Main Authors: Siegel, Michael, King, Charles, Ostroff, Joshua, Ross, Craig, Dixon, Karen, Jernigan, David H, Nelson, Jon P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Alcohol
Alcoholic beverages
Alcoholism
Audiences
Datasets
Print advertising
Public policy
Readership
Studies
Variables
Young adults
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Summary:This article investigates the relationship between alcohol advertising in magazines and youth readership, while controlling for a set of magazine and readership variables related to the demand for advertising space. It reconstructs and reanalyzes a data set including count data for alcohol ads placed in 28 magazines in 2001-2003 that was the basis for a previous study, which concluded that alcohol advertisers do not target youths. We address the problem of collinearity in that data set and add an explanatory variable to explicitly model the hypothesis that alcohol advertising is preferentially directed to a young adult audience. We find that the number of alcohol advertisements in magazines increases significantly with the proportion of youth readers, even after controlling for young adult readership. Our results indicate that youths are disproportionately exposed to alcohol advertising and that reducing youth exposure to alcohol advertising remains an important public policy concern. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:1074-3529
1465-7287