Newspaper coverage about smoking in leading Chinese newspapers in past nine years

Articles were allocated to a primary topic classification, which included government law/policy/regulation, health consequences, prevention/cessation programs, affiliated organisation/business news, negative social effects or other. The coverage of issues in newspapers is typically highly correlated with the presentation of the same issues in other media such as radio and television. 9 Indeed, newspaper and magazines articles are often cited by the public as common sources of health information. 10 In the US and Australia, secondhand smoke was the most prevalent tobacco-related theme. 11 Its low ranking in Chinese newspapers suggests there is plenty of scope to raise coverage of this issue in the news media in China.