ArticleTobacco control2015
Australian smokers' support for plain or standardised packs before and after implementation: findings from the ITC Four Country Survey.
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- Changes in Australian community perceptions of non-communicable disease prevention: a greater role for government?BMC public health · 2021Article
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- Effectiveness of Text-Only Cigarette Health Warnings in Japan: Findings from the 2018 International Tobacco Control (ITC) Japan Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- A multi-country survey of public support for food policies to promote healthy diets: Findings from the International Food Policy Study.BMC public health · 2019Article
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- Advancing progressive health policy to reduce NCDs amidst international commercial opposition: Tobacco standardised packaging in Australia.Global public health · 2018Article
- Public support for pictorial warnings on cigarette packs: an experimental study of US smokers.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2018Article
- Plain packaging policy: Preventing industry innovations.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2017Article
- The effects of maximising the UK's tobacco control score on inequalities in smoking prevalence and premature coronary heart disease mortality: a modelling study.BMC public health · 2016Article
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- "You're made to feel like a dirty filthy smoker when you're not, cigar smoking is another thing all together." Responses of Australian cigar and cigarillo smokers to plain packaging.Tobacco control · 2015Article
- Plain packaging of cigarettes: do we have sufficient evidence?Risk management and healthcare policy · 2015Review
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Abstract
backgroundPlain packaging (PP) for tobacco products was fully implemented in Australia on 1 December 2012 along with larger graphic health warnings. Using longitudinal data from the Australian arm of the ITC Four Country Survey, we examined attitudes to the new packs before and after implementation, predictors of attitudinal change, and the relationship between support and quitting activity.
methodsA population-based cohort study design, with some cross-sectional analyses. Surveys of Australian smokers assessed attitudes to PP at four time points prior to implementation (from 2007 to 2012) and one post-implementation wave collected (early/mid-2013).
resultsTrend analysis showed a slight rise in opposition to PP among smokers in the waves leading up to their implementation, but no change in support. Support for PP increased significantly after implementation (28.2% pre vs 49% post), such that post-PP more smokers were supportive than opposed (49% vs 34.7%). Multivariate analysis showed support either before or after implementation was predicted by belief in greater adverse health impacts of smoking, desire to quit and lower addiction. Among those not supportive before implementation, having no clear opinion about PP (versus being opposed) prior to the changes also predicted support post-implementation. Support for PP was prospectively associated with higher levels of quitting activity.
conclusionsSince implementation of PP along with larger warnings, support among Australian smokers has increased. Support is related to lower addiction, stronger beliefs in the negative health impacts of smoking, and higher levels of quitting activity.
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