ArticleBMC public health2013
A qualitative exploration of young adult smokers' responses to novel tobacco warnings.
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- Advancing Tobacco Product Warning Labels Research Methods and Theory: A Summary of a Grantee Meeting Held by the US National Cancer Institute.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019Review
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- Policy options for extending standardized tobacco packaging.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2017Article
- Addiction Treatment Clients' Reactions to Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarette Packs.Journal of drug issues · 2017Article
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- A qualitative analysis of Māori and Pacific smokers' views on informed choice and smoking.BMJ open · 2016Article
- Smoker identity and its potential role in young adults' smoking behavior: A meta-ethnography.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2015Review
- Do larger graphic health warnings on standardised cigarette packs increase adolescents' cognitive processing of consumer health information and beliefs about smoking-related harms?Tobacco control · 2015Article
- A qualitative analysis of messages to promote smoking cessation among pregnant women.BMJ open · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundDespite reduced smoking among adolescents, smoking prevalence peaks among young adults aged 18-30, many of whom believe themselves exempt from the health risks of smoking shown in warning labels. We explored how young adult smokers perceived warnings featuring proximal risks, and whether these encouraged cessation more effectively than traditional health messages.
methodsWe conducted in-depth interviews with 17 young adult smokers and explored their perceptions of current warnings as well as novel warnings representing short-term health consequences; immediate social risks, and tobacco's toxicity (denormalizing tobacco as an everyday product). We used a thematic analysis approach to explore how participants rationalized existing warnings and interpreted the novel messages.
resultsParticipants considered the immediate social and physiological benefits they gained from smoking outweighed the distal risks shown in health warnings, which they regarded as improbable and irrelevant. Of the novel warnings, those presenting immediate social risks altered the balance of gains and losses young adults associated with smoking; however, those presenting short-term health risks or depicting tobacco as a toxin were less effective.
conclusionsParticipants regarded warnings featuring proximal social risks as more salient and they were less likely to rationalise these as irrelevant. Social risk messages merit further investigation to examine their potential as a complement to traditional health warnings.
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