ArticleAddiction biology2015
Emotional graphic cigarette warning labels reduce the electrophysiological brain response to smoking cues.
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- Emotional arousal of graphic cigarette warning labels loses its beneficial effects on craving reduction after repeated exposure - A longitudinal neuroimaging study.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Article
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- Using Neuroscience to Inform Tobacco Control Policy.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019Review
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- Neuroimaging, neuromodulation, and population health: the neuroscience of chronic disease prevention.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2018Review
- Food product health warnings promote dietary self-control through reductions in neural signals indexing food cue reactivity.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2018Article
- Smokers' Neurological Responses to Novel and Repeated Health Warning Labels (HWLs) From Cigarette Packages.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Calorie information and dieting status modulate reward and control activation during the evaluation of food images.PloS one · 2018Article
- Disparagement of health warning labels on cigarette packages and cessation attempts: results from four countries.Health education research · 2017Article
- The Importance of Relevant Emotional Arousal in the Efficacy of Pictorial Health Warnings for Cigarettes.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2017Article
- Neural correlates of graphic cigarette warning labels predict smoking cessation relapse.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2017Article
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- The Age-related Positivity Effect and Tobacco Warning Labels.Tobacco regulatory science · 2016Article
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Abstract
There is an ongoing public debate about the new graphic warning labels (GWLs) that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposes to place on cigarette packs. Tobacco companies argued that the strongly emotional images FDA proposed to include in the GWLs encroached on their constitutional rights. The court ruled that FDA did not provide sufficient scientific evidence of compelling public interest in such encroachment. This study's objectives were to examine the effects of the GWLs on the electrophysiological and behavioral correlates of smoking addiction and to determine whether labels rated higher on the emotional reaction (ER) scale are associated with greater effects. We studied 25 non-treatment-seeking smokers. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants viewed a random sequence of paired images, in which visual smoking (Cues) or non-smoking (non-Cues) images were preceded by GWLs or neutral images. Participants reported their cigarette craving after viewing each pair. Dependent variables were magnitude of P300 ERPs and self-reported cigarette craving in response to Cues. We found that subjective craving response to Cues was significantly reduced by preceding GWLs, whereas the P300 amplitude response to Cues was reduced only by preceding GWLs rated high on the ER scale. In conclusion, our study provides experimental neuroscience evidence that weighs in on the ongoing public and legal debate about how to balance the constitutional and public health aspects of the FDA-proposed GWLs. The high toll of smoking-related illness and death adds urgency to the debate and prompts consideration of our findings while longitudinal studies of GWLs are underway.
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