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Awareness of FDA-mandated cigarette packaging changes among smokers of 'light' cigarettes.
Article in Health education research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Effects of cigarette package colors and warning labels on marlboro smokers' risk beliefs, product appraisals, and smoking behavior: a randomized trial.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- Colour attributes in packaging of oral nicotine pouches: an artificial intelligence guided analysis.Tobacco control · 2025Article
- Awareness of hazards due to tobacco among people aged 15 years and older in Chongqing, China, in 2020: A cross-sectional analysis.Tobacco induced diseases · 2022Article
- Shedding 'light' on cigarette pack design: colour differences in product perceptions, use and exposure following the US descriptor ban.Tobacco control · 2022Article
- Responses to reduced nicotine cigarette marketing features: a systematic review.Tobacco control · 2021Article
- Smokers' perceptions of different classes of cigarette brand descriptors.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2021Article
- Association of Cigarette Type and Nicotine Dependence in Patients Presenting for Lung Cancer Screening.Chest · 2020Article
- Marketing Influences on Perceptions of Reduced Nicotine Content Cigarettes.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019Article
- Testing a Brief Web-based Intervention to Increase Recognition of Tobacco Constituents.Tobacco regulatory science · 2018Article
- Evaluating Point of Sale Tobacco Marketing Using Behavioral Laboratory Methods.Tobacco regulatory science · 2016Article
- Cigarette marketing and packaging.The virtual mentor : VM · 2013Article
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Abstract
Previous research has clearly demonstrated that smokers associate cigarette descriptors such as 'light', 'ultra-light' and 'low tar' with reduced health risks, despite evidence showing that cigarettes with these descriptor terms do not present lower health risk. In June 2010, regulations implemented by the US Food and Drug Administration went into effect to ban the use of 'light', 'mild' and 'low' on cigarette packaging. We surveyed smokers participating in human laboratory studies at our Center in Philadelphia, PA, USA shortly after the ban went into effect to determine the extent of awareness of recent cigarette packaging changes among smokers of light cigarettes. In our sample of 266 smokers, 76 reported smoking light cigarettes, but fewer than half of these smokers reported noticing changes to their cigarette packaging. Simple removal of a few misleading terms may be too subtle of a change to register with consumers of so-called 'low tar' cigarettes; more comprehensive regulation of cigarette packaging design may be necessary to gain smokers' attention and minimize misperceptions associated with tobacco pack design characteristics and color.
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