ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2018
Public support for pictorial warnings on cigarette packs: an experimental study of US smokers.
Article in Journal of behavioral medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05700019 (Effects of 'Pinkwashed' Alcohol Ads in an Online RCT), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Effects of 'Pinkwashed' Alcohol Ads in an Online RCT
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Reactions to graphic and text health warnings for cigarettes, sugar-sweetened beverages, and alcohol: An online randomized experiment of US adults.Preventive medicine · 2020Trial
- Understanding Why Pictorial Cigarette Pack Warnings Increase Quit Attempts.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2019Trial
- Why smokers avoid cigarette pack risk messages: Two randomized clinical trials in the United States.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2018Trial
- Defensive Reactions to Pictorial Warning Labels Featuring Narrative Versus Non-Narrative Content.Health communication · 2026Article
- "You are Telling the Story Yourself": Defining and Developing Narrative Pictorial Warning Labels.Health communication · 2024Article
- The impact of "pinkwashed" alcohol advertisements on attitudes and beliefs: A randomized experiment with US adults.Addictive behaviors · 2024Article
- Tobacco-control policy support among people from low socioeconomic positions in Massachusetts.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Nudging Interventions on Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in Adults: A Scoping Review of the Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- Primary care professionals' support for Covid-19 vaccination mandates: Findings from a US national survey.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- Public Support for Cigarette Pack Pictorial Health Warnings Among US Adults: A Cross-sectional Analysis of the 2020 Health Information National Trends Survey.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022Article
- U.S. public opinion toward policy restrictions to limit tobacco product placement and advertising at point-of-sale and on social media.Preventive medicine · 2022Article
- Which tobacco control policies do smokers support? Findings from the International Tobacco Control Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey.Preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Using the intervention ladder to examine policy influencer and general public support for potential tobacco control policies in Alberta and Quebec.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2020Article
- Impact of e-cigarette health warnings on motivation to vape and smoke.Tobacco control · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundUnderstanding factors that influence public support for "nudging" policies, like pictorial cigarette pack warnings, may offer insight about how to increase such support. We sought to examine factors that influence smokers' support for requiring pictorial warnings on cigarette packs.
methodsIn 2014 and 2015, we randomly assigned 2149 adult US smokers to receive either pictorial warnings or text-only warnings on their cigarette packs for 4 weeks. The outcome examined in the current study was support for a policy requiring pictorial warnings on cigarette packs in the US.
resultsSupport for pictorial warnings was high at baseline (mean: 3.2 out of 4). Exposure to pictorial warnings increased policy support at week 4 (β = .05, p = .03). This effect was explained by increases in perceived message effectiveness (p < .001) and reported conversations about policy support (p < .001). Message reactance (i.e., an oppositional reaction to the warning) partially diminished the impact of pictorial warnings on policy support (p < .001).
conclusionsExposing people to a new policy through implementation could increase public support for that policy by increasing perceived effectiveness and by prompting conversations about the policy. Reactance may partially weaken the effect of policy exposure on public support.
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