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Table 1 Magazine genre, circulation, and number of skin cancer and tanning articles published (2001–2012)

From: Coverage of skin cancer and recreational tanning in North American magazines before and after the landmark 2006 International Agency for Research on Cancer report

Country

Magazine

Type/focus of magazine

Circulation (2012)

Number (Mean/year, SD)

United States

Good Housekeeping

Women’s general interest

4,346,747

46 (3.8, 2.7)

Family Circle

Women’s general interest

4,100,977

12 (1.0, 0.6)

Ladies Home Journal

Women’s general interest

3,205,302

22 (1.8. 1.8)

Cosmopolitan

Women’s beauty/fashion

3,017,834

65 (5.4, 2.7)

Glamour

Women’s beauty/fashion

2,374,291

25 (2.1, 2.1)

Vogue

Women’s beauty/fashion

1,222,373

16 (1.3, 1.2)

Elle U.S.

Women’s beauty/fashion

1,121,529

48 (4.0, 2.3)

Shape

Women’s health/fitness

1,635,933

112 (9.3, 4.6)

Self

Women’s health/fitness

1,528,583

48 (4.0, 3.7)

GQ

Men’s general interest

963,507

3 (0.3, 0.5)

Esquire

Men’s general interest

721,399

10 (0.8, 1.1)

Details

Men’s general interest

461,937

2 (0.2, 0.4)

Sports Illustrated

Men’s sport/science

3,204,945

1 (0.1, 0.3)

Golf Digest

Men’s sport/science

1,678,538

13 (1.1, 0.7)

Popular Science

Men’s sport/science

1,350,685

7 (0.6, 1.2)

Field and Stream

Men’s sport/science

1,252,833

1 (0.1, 0.3)

Men’s Health

Men’s health/fitness

1,918,387

72 (6.0, 2.6)

Men’s Fitness

Men’s health/fitness

585,265

24 (2.0, 2.0)

Muscle and Fitness

Men’s health/fitness

325,000

17 (1.4, 1.1)

Seventeen

Teen girls’ general interest

2,025,299

33 (2.8. 1.5)

Time

News

3,276,822

16 (1.3, 1.2)

Newsweek

News

1,527,156

15 (1.3, 1.7)

Canada

Chatelaine

Women’s general interest

550,613

23 (1.9, 1.3)

Canadian Living

Women’s general interest

511,817

20 (1.7, 1.4)

Homemakers

Women’s general interest

300,764

11 (0.9, 1.1)

FASHION

Women’s beauty/fashion

141,760

32 (2.7, 2.0)

Elle Canada

Women’s beauty/fashion

131,365

18 (1.5, 1.1)

Flare

Women’s beauty/fashion

127,341

43 (3.6, 2.5)

Maclean’s

News

321,095

6 (0.5, 0.9)

  1. Magazines are listed by type/focus (e.g., news magazine) and showing highest to lowest circulation numbers for that type/focus for the year 2012.