ArticleSSM - population health2017
Worldviews and trust of sources for health information on electronic nicotine delivery systems: Effects on risk perceptions and use.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Policy Awareness Outweighs Health Knowledge: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis of Tobacco Quit Intention Determinants in Vietnam's Provincial Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2024.Tobacco use insights · 2025Article
- The Impact of Exposure to Food and Drug Administration E-cigarette Authorization Messages on Product Perceptions and Interest-An Experiment With Adults Who Smoke and Youth.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
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- Trust in COVID-19 information sources and perceived risk among smokers: A nationally representative survey.PloS one · 2022Article
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- Truth Telling about Tobacco and Nicotine.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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- Light and mild redux: heated tobacco products' reduced exposure claims are likely to be misunderstood as reduced risk claims.Tobacco control · 2018Article
- A qualitative exploration of information-seeking by electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) users in New Zealand.BMJ open · 2018Article
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Abstract
Public health agencies, the news media, and the tobacco/vapor industry have issued contradictory statements about the health effects of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). We investigated the levels of trust that consumers place in different information sources and how trust is associated with cultural worldviews, risk perceptions, ENDS use, and sociodemographic characteristics using a nationally representative sample of 6051 U.S. adults in 2015. Seventeen percent of adults were uncertain about their trust for one or more potential sources. Among the rest, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), health experts, and the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) elicited the highest levels of trust. In contrast, tobacco and vapor manufacturers, vape shop employees, and, to a lesser extent, the news media were distrusted. Adults who had higher incomes and more education or espoused egalitarian and communitarian worldviews expressed more trust in health sources and the FDA, whereas those identifying as non-Hispanic Black or multiracial reported less trust. Current smokers, those who identified as non-Hispanic Black or other race, had lower incomes, and espoused hierarchy and individualism worldviews expressed less distrust toward the tobacco and vapor industry. Greater trust (or less distrust) toward the tobacco and vapor industry and an individualism worldview were associated with perceptions of lower risk of premature death from daily ENDS use, greater uncertainty about those risks, and greater odds of using ENDS. Public health and the FDA should consider consumer trust and worldviews in the design and regulation of public education campaigns regarding the potential health risks and benefits of ENDS.
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