ArticleNicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2019
Placing Antismoking Graphic Warning Posters at Retail Point-of-Sale Locations Increases Some Adolescents' Susceptibility to Future Smoking.
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- Health Warnings and Beverage Purchase Behavior: Mediators of Impact.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2020Trial
- Looming Vulnerability and Smoking Cessation Attempts.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Trial
- Graphic health warning posters increase some adolescents' future cigarette use susceptibility by changing normative perceptions of smoking: A case of mediated moderation.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2019Trial
- Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Health Warnings and Purchases: A Randomized Controlled Trial.American journal of preventive medicine · 2019Trial
- Restricting Tobacco Poster Advertising Space at Retail Point of Sale Reduces Some Young Adults' Susceptibility to Future Cigarette Smoking.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2026Article
- How does removing menthol tobacco product displays at point-of-sale affect adolescents' cigarette smoking intentions? The mediating effects of social norms.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- War on Drugs in the Philippines: Evaluating Fear Appeals as Antidote to Continued Drug Use.Acta medica Philippina · 2025Article
- Using a Naturalistic Store Laboratory for Clinical Trials of Point-of-Sale Nutrition Policies and Interventions: A Feasibility and Validation Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Observational
- Do graphic health warning labels on cigarette packages deter purchases at point-of-sale? An experiment with adult smokers.Health education research · 2019Article
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Objectives: This experiment tested whether introducing graphic antitobacco posters at point-of-sale (POS) had any effect on adolescents' susceptibility to future cigarette smoking and whether these effects were moderated by adolescents' baseline risk of cigarette smoking. Methods: The study was conducted in the RAND StoreLab, a life-sized replica of a convenience store that was developed to experimentally evaluate how changing aspects of tobacco advertising displays in retail POS environments influence tobacco use risk and behavior during simulated shopping experiences. In this study, 441 adolescents were randomized to one of the four conditions in a 2 (graphic antismoking poster placed near the tobacco power wall: no, yes) × 2 (graphic antismoking poster placed near the cash register: no, yes) experimental design. The outcome of interest was susceptibility to future cigarette smoking. Results: The addition of antismoking posters at POS led to a significant increase in future smoking susceptibility among those adolescents who already were at high risk for smoking in the future (p < .045). The introduction of graphic antismoking posters had no impact on committed never smokers, regardless of poster location; never smokers' susceptibility to future smoking was uniformly low across experimental conditions. Conclusions: Introducing graphic antismoking posters at POS may have the unintended effect of further increasing cigarette smoking susceptibility among adolescents already at risk.
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