The SMOG test was chosen for performing readability tests on the samples. The SMOG test was introduced by McLaughlin in 196923 and has been used extensively to analyze health-oriented literature. In addition, it is adaptable to small sample sizes. In- structions for how to perform the SMOG test were obtained from a National Institutes of Health publication.24 The basic provisions of the test include selecting 3 10-sentence samples (1 each from near the beginning, middle, and end of the desired text) and then counting the number of polysyllabic words (containing 3 or more syllables) in that sample. This information is then used to calculate the reading ability (measured as school grade reading level) re- quired for a person to comprehend that particular text.