State-Level Point-of-Sale Tobacco News Coverage and Policy Progression Over a 2-Year Period.
Allison E MyersBrian G SouthwellKurt M RibislSarah Moreland-RussellJ Michael BowlingLeslie A LytlePublished in: Health promotion practice (2018)
Newspaper coverage can be a marker of POS policy progression. Whether media can influence policy implementation remains an important question. Future work should continue to tease out and confirm the unique characteristics of media content that are most associated with subsequent policy progression, in order to inform media advocacy efforts.