ReviewTobacco control2005
Ensuring smokers are adequately informed: reflections on consumer rights, manufacturer responsibilities, and policy implications.
Review in Tobacco control, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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22 citing papers in PubMed.
- Dissuasive measures on tobacco products: a rapid review of global evidence.Health promotion international · 2026Review
- The Impact of Smokers' Information-Seeking Behavior on Smoking Cessation.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Article
- Exercise and Physical Activity eHealth in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study of Effects on Motivations, Behavior Change Mechanisms, and Behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- A Deliberate Choice? Exploring the Decision to Switch from Cigarettes to E-Cigarettes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- How are different levels of knowledge about physical activity associated with physical activity behaviour in Australian adults?PloS one · 2018Article
- New Zealand policy experts' appraisal of interventions to reduce smoking in young adults: a qualitative investigation.BMJ open · 2017Article
- Criterion validity of measures of perceived relative harm of e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco compared to cigarettes.Addictive behaviors · 2017Article
- U.S. adults' addiction and harm beliefs about nicotine and low nicotine cigarettes.Preventive medicine · 2017Article
- A qualitative analysis of Māori and Pacific smokers' views on informed choice and smoking.BMJ open · 2016Article
- Factor Structure and Stability of Smoking-Related Health Beliefs in the National Lung Screening Trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2016Article
- "Tobacco dependence treatment makes no sense because"…: rebuttal of commonly-heard arguments against providing tobacco dependence treatment in the hospital setting.BMC public health · 2014Review
- When health policy and empirical evidence collide: the case of cigarette package warning labels and economic consumer surplus.American journal of public health · 2014Article
- Knowledge of the health impacts of smoking and public attitudes towards tobacco control in the former Soviet Union.Tobacco control · 2013Article
- Comparing the experience of regret and its predictors among smokers in four Asian countries: findings from the ITC surveys in Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, and China.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2013Article
- Tobacco endgames: what they are and are not, issues for tobacco control strategic planning and a possible US scenario.Tobacco control · 2013Article
- The case for a smoker's license.PLoS medicine · 2012Article
- Impact of graphic and text warnings on cigarette packs: findings from four countries over five years.Tobacco control · 2009Article
- Promoting the effective translation of the framework convention on tobacco control: a case study of challenges and opportunities for strategic communications in Mexico.Evaluation & the health professions · 2008Article
- Smoking too few cigarettes to be at risk? Smokers' perceptions of risk and risk denial, a French survey.Tobacco control · 2007Article
- Smokers and non-smokers talk about regulatory options in tobacco control.Tobacco control · 2006Article
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Abstract
The right to information is a fundamental consumer value. Following the advent of health warnings, the tobacco industry has repeatedly asserted that smokers are fully informed of the risks they take, while evidence demonstrates widespread superficial levels of awareness and understanding. There remains much that tobacco companies could do to fulfil their responsibilities to inform smokers. We explore issues involved in the meaning of "adequately informed" smoking and discuss some of the key policy and regulatory implications. We use the idea of a smoker licensing scheme-under which it would be illegal to sell to smokers who had not demonstrated an adequate level of awareness-as a device to explore some of these issues. We also explore some of the difficulties that addiction poses for the notion that smokers might ever voluntarily assume the risks of smoking.
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