The number (%) of newspaper articles by article theme, article type, and prominence
| Article type* | Early general news | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article theme | Total | News | Column | Editorial | Letter | Other | Yes |
| *Note: due to the small number of articles coded as question and answer, information, or image (no story) articles in these categories have been included under “other”. | |||||||
| Secondhand smoke issues | 351 (30%) | 228 (65%) | 35 (10%) | 12 (3%) | 59 (17%) | 17 (5%) | 69 (20%) |
| Education and prevention | 237 (20%) | 177 (75%) | 19 (8%) | 4 (2%) | 21 (9%) | 16 (7%) | 39 (17%) |
| Health effects | 116 (10%) | 98 (85%) | 3 (3%) | 0 (0%) | 13 (11%) | 2 (2%) | 16 (14%) |
| Tobacco industry | 109 (9%) | 91 (84%) | 14 (13%) | 2 (2%) | 1 (1%) | 1 (1%) | 13 (12%) |
| Advertising and promotion | 89 (8%) | 65 (73%) | 6 (7%) | 0 (0%) | 18 (20%) | 0 (0%) | 15 (17%) |
| Consumption | 81 (7%) | 54 (67%) | 9 (11%) | 1 (1%) | 13 (16%) | 4 (5%) | 14 (17%) |
| Economic issues | 72 (6%) | 46 (64%) | 5 (7%) | 1 (1%) | 18 (25%) | 2 (3%) | 22 (31%) |
| Product issues | 62 (5%) | 57 (92%) | 2 (3%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (3%) | 1 (2%) | 14 (23%) |
| Addiction | 27 (2 %) | 18 (67%) | 6 (22 %) | 0 (0%) | 1 (4%) | 2 (7%) | 0 (0%) |
| Youth access | 20 (2%) | 16 (80%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 4 (20%) | 0 (0%) | 3 (15%) |
| Other | 15 (1%) | 5 (33%) | 5 (33%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (7%) | 4 (27%) | 0 (0%) |
| Environmental damage | 8 (1%) | 6 (75%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (25%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Farming | 1 (0%) | 1 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Total | 1188 | 862 (73%) | 104 (9%) | 20 (2%) | 153 (13%) | 49 (4%) | 205 (17%) |