Sources quoted in articles reporting passive smoking research
| Type of person quoted | Magazine articles (n = 92) | Newspaper articles (n = 180) | z | p | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | (n) | % | n | |||||||
| Public health/government officials | 32 | (30) | 56 | (101) | 3.62 | <0.0001 | ||||
| Scientists/physicians/academicians | 29 | (27) | 46 | (82) | 2.57 | 0.01 | ||||
| Non-smoker's rights advocates | 24 | (22) | 4 | (8) | 4.83 | <0.0001 | ||||
| Tobacco industry representatives | 12 | (11) | 52 | (94) | 6.28 | 0.0001 | ||||
| Smoker's rights advocates | 2 | (2) | 0 | (0) | 1.12 | 0.26 | ||||
| Other or no affiliation | 3 | (3) | 0 | (0) | 1.70 | 0.09 | ||||
Percentages add to more than 100 because the categories are not mutually exclusive. An article was rated as quoting someone in a particular category if at least one person in that category was quoted. Differences in proportions were analysed using thez statistic.