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ArticleAddictive behaviors2019

U.S. adult perceptions of the harmfulness of tobacco products: descriptive findings from the 2013-14 baseline wave 1 of the path study.

Geoffrey T Fong, Tara Elton-Marshall, Pete Driezen, Annette R Kaufman, K Michael Cummings, Kelvin Choi, Jonathan Kwan, Amber Koblitz, Andrew Hyland, Maansi Bansal-Travers and 2 more

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Article in Addictive behaviors, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Effects of Modified Risk Tobacco Product Claims on Consumer Responses.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024
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  10. Risk Factors for E-Cigarette Ban Relaxation in Homes With Adolescents.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024
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  16. Youths' Perceptions of Nicotine Harm and Associations With Product Use.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Geoffrey T FongDepartment of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Tara Elton-MarshallInstitute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, London, ON, Canada; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada; School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: Tara.EltonMarshall@camh.ca.
Pete DriezenDepartment of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Annette R KaufmanUS Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
K Michael CummingsDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
Kelvin ChoiDivision of Intramural Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Jonathan KwanCenter for Tobacco Products, United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
Amber KoblitzCenter for Tobacco Products, United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
Andrew HylandDepartment of Health Behavior, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Maansi Bansal-TraversDepartment of Health Behavior, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Charles CarusiWestat, Rockville, MD, USA.
Mary E ThompsonDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Funding

Understanding and reducing tobacco-related health disparities through social and behavioral researchZIAMD000006 · NIMHD · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES · PI CHOI, KELVIN · 2015 to 2025
$7.0M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA MD000006NIDA NIH HHS HHSN271201100027C
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThis study is the first nationally representative survey of U.S. adults (18+) to examine perceptions of the relative harms of eight non-cigarette tobacco products.

methodsData are from Wave 1 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study Adult Questionnaire, a nationally representative study of 32,320 adults in the United States conducted from September 2013 to December 2014.

results40.7% of adults believed that electronic cigarettes were less harmful than cigarettes, and 17.8% of adults believed that hookah was less harmful than cigarettes. Those less knowledgeable about the health risks of smoking were more likely to believe that the non-cigarette products were less harmful than cigarettes. Current non-cigarette tobacco product users were more likely to perceive that product to be less harmful than cigarettes (except filtered cigars). There was a significant positive correlation between beliefs that cigarettes were harmful and the likelihood of using hookah; perceptions of the harmfulness of cigarettes was not associated with the likelihood of using any other product.

conclusionsPerceptions of harmfulness varied widely across non-cigarette tobacco products. E-cigarettes and hookah in particular are seen as less harmful compared to cigarettes.

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Attitude to HealthElectronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsTobacco, SmokelessTobacco, WaterpipeAdolescentAdultAgedCigarette SmokingFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPerceptionRiskTobacco ProductsUnited StatesElectronic cigaretteHookahPerception of harmTobacco products

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PMID30502927
PMCPMC7441470

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