ArticleTobacco control2015
Do larger graphic health warnings on standardised cigarette packs increase adolescents' cognitive processing of consumer health information and beliefs about smoking-related harms?
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- A systematic review of the perceptions of adolescents on graphic health warnings and plain packaging of cigarettes.Systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Tobacco packaging design for reducing tobacco use.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
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- Emotional Impact of Graphic Health Warnings on Tobacco Packaging: Analysis of Their Content.Europe's journal of psychology · 2022Article
- Fresher with flavour: young women smokers' constructions and experiences of menthol capsule cigarettes and regular cigarettes.BMC women's health · 2021Article
- Assessing cigarette packaging and labelling policy effects on early adolescents: results from a discrete choice experiment.Tobacco control · 2020Article
- Advancing Tobacco Product Warning Labels Research Methods and Theory: A Summary of a Grantee Meeting Held by the US National Cancer Institute.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019Review
- Adolescent and adult perceptions of the effects of larger size graphic health warnings on conventional and plain tobacco packs in India: A community-based cross-sectional study.Tobacco induced diseases · 2019Article
- Perceptions of branded and plain cigarette packaging among Mexican youth.Health promotion international · 2017Article
- Standardised tobacco packaging: a health policy case study of corporate conflict expansion and adaptation.BMJ open · 2016Article
- Are quitting-related cognitions and behaviours predicted by proximal responses to plain packaging with larger health warnings? Findings from a national cohort study with Australian adult smokers.Tobacco control · 2015Article
- Plain packaging: a logical progression for tobacco control in one of the world's 'darkest markets'.Tobacco control · 2015Article
- Death of a salesman.Tobacco control · 2015Article
- Australian adult smokers' responses to plain packaging with larger graphic health warnings 1 year after implementation: results from a national cross-sectional tracking survey.Tobacco control · 2015Article
- Has the introduction of plain packaging with larger graphic health warnings changed adolescents' perceptions of cigarette packs and brands?Tobacco control · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine the impact of plain packaging of cigarettes with enhanced graphic health warnings on Australian adolescents' cognitive processing of warnings and awareness of different health consequences of smoking.
methodsCross-sectional school-based surveys conducted in 2011 (prior to introduction of standardised packaging, n=6338) and 2013 (7-12 months afterwards, n=5915). Students indicated frequency of attending to, reading, thinking or talking about warnings. Students viewed a list of diseases or health effects and were asked to indicate whether each was caused by smoking. Two-'kidney and bladder cancer' and 'damages gums and teeth'-were new while the remainder had been promoted through previous health warnings and/or television campaigns. The 60% of students seeing a cigarette pack in previous 6 months in 2011 and 65% in 2013 form the sample for analysis. Changes in responses over time are examined.
resultsAwareness that smoking causes bladder cancer increased between 2011 and 2013 (p=0.002). There was high agreement with statements reflecting health effects featured in previous warnings or advertisements with little change over time. Exceptions to this were increases in the proportion agreeing that smoking was a leading cause of death (p<0.001) and causes blindness (p<0.001). The frequency of students reading, attending to, thinking or talking about the health warnings on cigarette packs did not change.
conclusionsAcknowledgement of negative health effects of smoking among Australian adolescents remains high. Apart from increased awareness of bladder cancer, new requirements for packaging and health warnings did not increase adolescents' cognitive processing of warning information.
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