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ArticleTobacco control2017

Public health benefits from pictorial health warnings on US cigarette packs: a SimSmoke simulation.

David T Levy, Darren Mays, Zhe Yuan, David Hammond, James F Thrasher

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Article in Tobacco control, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Reactions to Pictorial and Text Cigarette Pack Warning Labels among Chinese Smokers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  4. Mediational Effects on Motivation to Quit Smoking After Exposure to a Cigarette Pictorial Warning Label Among Young Adults.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2022
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  7. Waterpipe Tobacco Warnings: An Experimental Study Among a Nationally Representative Sample of US Young Adults.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021
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  8. Testing front-of-package warnings to discourage red meat consumption: a randomized experiment with US meat consumers.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021
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  18. Comparison of smoking prevalence in Canada before and after nicotine vaping product access using the SimSmoke model.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

David T LevyDepartment of Oncology, Cancer Prevention & Control Program, Georgetown University Medical Center, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington, DC, USA.
Darren MaysDepartment of Oncology, Cancer Prevention & Control Program, Georgetown University Medical Center, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington, DC, USA.
Zhe YuanDepartment of Oncology, Cancer Prevention & Control Program, Georgetown University Medical Center, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington, DC, USA.
David HammondSchool of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
James F ThrasherDepartment of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.

Funding

Comparative Modeling of Lung Cancer Prevention and Control PoliciesU01CA199284 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI DE KONING, HARRY J, HOLFORD, THEODORE R · 2015 to 2019
$8.4M
Comparative Modeling of Lung Cancer Control PoliciesU01CA152956 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI DE KONING, HARRY J, KONG, CHUNG YIN · 2010 to 2014
$7.4M
Building evidence for effective and sustainable cigarette warning label policyR01CA167067 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · PI THRASHER, JAMES · 2012 to 2016
$2.7M
MODELING THE POLICY IMPACT OF CIGARETTE AND SMOKELESS USE ON US MORTALITYR01DA036497 · NIDA · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI LEVY, DAVID THEODORE · 2013 to 2016
$2.5M
A Simulation of Tobacco Policy, Smoking and Lung CancerU01CA097450 · NCI · PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RES AND EVALUATION · PI LEVY, DAVID THEODORE · 2002 to 2009
$2.1M
Optimizing Graphic Warning Labels To Promote Cessation Among Young Adult SmokersK07CA172217 · NCI · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI MAYS, DARREN M · 2014 to 2018
$739k
NCI NIH HHS K07 CA172217NCI NIH HHS R01 CA167067NCI NIH HHS U01 CA097450NCI NIH HHS U01 CA152956NCI NIH HHS U01 CA199284NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA036497
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionWhile many countries have adopted prominent pictorial warning labels (PWLs) for cigarette packs, the USA still requires only small, text-only labels located on one side of the cigarette pack that have little effect on smoking-related outcomes. Tobacco industry litigation blocked implementation of a 2011 Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) rule requiring large PWLs. To inform FDA action on PWLs, this study provides research-based estimates of their public health impacts.

methodsLiterature was reviewed to identify the impact of cigarette PWLs on smoking prevalence, cessation and initiation. Based on this analysis, the

resultsAvailable research consistently shows a direct association between PWLs and increased cessation and reduced smoking initiation and prevalence. The

conclusionsRequiring PWLs on all US cigarette packs would be appropriate for the protection of the public health, because it would substantially reduce smoking prevalence and thereby reduce SADs and the morbidity and medical costs associated with adverse smoking-attributable birth outcomes.

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Computer SimulationPictorial Works as TopicChild HealthCigarette SmokingHumansMaternal HealthPrevalenceProduct LabelingPublic HealthSmoking PreventionUnited StatesPackaging and LabellingPublic policySurveillance and monitoring

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PMCPMC5966722

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