SynthesisJournal of behavioral medicine2017
How people think about the chemicals in cigarette smoke: a systematic review.
Synthesis in Journal of behavioral medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.
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48 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Fuetsan Manhoben Curriculum: Effects on Risk Perceptions and Intentions Regarding Tobacco and Betel Nut Use Among Adolescents in Guam.Substance use & misuse · 2026Trial
- Intensive Intervention on Smoking Cessation in Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery: The Role of Family Physicians.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Trial
- Youth and adult understanding of public displays of information about harmful constituents in cigarette smoke.Preventive medicine · 2023Trial
- Can the Public Be Educated About Constituents in Smokeless Tobacco? A Three-Wave Randomized Controlled Trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021Trial
- Communicating about chemicals in cigarette smoke: impact on knowledge and misunderstanding.Tobacco control · 2020Trial
- Cigarette pack messages about toxic chemicals: a randomised clinical trial.Tobacco control · 2019Trial
- The Effect of a Secondary Stressor on the Morphology and Membrane Structure of an Already Challenged Maternal and Foetal Red Blood Cell Population.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of Juniper Essential Oils in Reducing Selected Cigarette Smoke Toxicants, Improving Oxidative Parameters, and Cytotoxicity Against Lung Adenocarcinoma.Biochemistry research international · 2025Article
- Achieving Public Health Impact: Health Communication Research to Inform Tobacco Regulatory Science.Health communication · 2024Article
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- Early-life exposures and long-term health: adverse gestational environments and the programming of offspring renal and vascular disease.American journal of physiology. Renal physiology · 2024Review
- The association between anti-smoking legislation and prevalence of acute respiratory illnesses in Indian children.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2024Article
- Believability of messaging concerning a hypothetical product standard to lower a constituent in cigarettes or smokeless tobacco among U.S. Adults who use tobacco.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Polymorphisms in Glutathione S-Transferase (Genes · 2023Article
- Cigarette Smoke-Induced Respiratory Response: Insights into Cellular Processes and Biomarkers.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- Prenatal nicotine exposure during pregnancy results in adverse neurodevelopmental alterations and neurobehavioral deficits.Advances in drug and alcohol research · 2023Review
- Is a cigarette brand with fewer chemicals safer? Public perceptions in two national US experiments.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- Current Knowledge and Novel Therapeutic Approaches Based on Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics in Stress-Induced Pathology.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- Exposure to tobacco and betel nut content on social media, risk perceptions, and susceptibility to peer influence among early adolescents in Guam.Addictive behaviors reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Laws and treaties compel countries to inform the public about harmful chemicals (constituents) in cigarette smoke. To encourage relevant research by behavioral scientists, we provide a primer on cigarette smoke toxicology and summarize research on how the public thinks about cigarette smoke chemicals. We systematically searched PubMed in July 2016 and reviewed citations from included articles. Four central findings emerged across 46 articles that met inclusion criteria. First, people were familiar with very few chemicals in cigarette smoke. Second, people knew little about cigarette additives, assumed harmful chemicals are added during manufacturing, and perceived cigarettes without additives to be less harmful. Third, people wanted more information about constituents. Finally, well-presented chemical information increased knowledge and awareness and may change behavior. This research area is in urgent need of behavioral science. Future research should investigate whether educating the public about these chemicals increases risk perceptions and quitting.
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