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ArticleBMJ open2021

Anticipated responses to a hypothetical minimum price for cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco: an online cross-sectional survey with cigarette smokers and ex-smokers in the UK.

Nathan Critchlow, Crawford Moodie, Catherine Best, Martine Stead

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Article in BMJ open, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Correlates of Anticipated Responses to Cigar Price Increase Among U.S. Adults Who Smoke Cigars.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nathan CritchlowInstitute for Social Marketing and Health, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK nathan.critchlow@stir.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9145-8874
Crawford MoodieInstitute for Social Marketing and Health, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
Catherine BestInstitute for Social Marketing and Health, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3652-2498
Martine SteadInstitute for Social Marketing and Health, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
University of Stirling · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK 18507
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesAs tobacco companies can circumvent tax increases, a minimum retail price per-cigarette/per-gram of roll-your-own tobacco presents an additional mechanism for governments to reduce smoking. We examined (1) anticipated responses to a hypothetical minimum price-per-cigarette/per-gram among smokers in the UK; (2) what demographic and smoker characteristics are associated with anticipated responses; and (3) whether minimum pricing may help ex-smokers stay quit.

designCross-sectional survey (May-July 2019).

settingUK.

participantsAdult cigarette smokers (n=2412) and ex-smokers (n=700). MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS: Anticipated responses to a hypothetical minimum price of £10.00 for 20 cigarettes (£0.50 per-cigarette) and £13.50 for 30 grams of roll-your-own tobacco (£0.45 per-gram); approximately £0.10 per-cigarette/per-gram increases on the cheapest prices in leading UK supermarkets (January 2019). Smokers were presented with ten options (eg, '

resultsAmong smokers, 55.6% said they would most likely smoke the same amount, 10.7% they would smoke less, 9.5% they would try to quit and 5.8% they would use e-cigarettes more often. Anticipated reactions were associated with demography and smoker characteristics, for example, C2DE (lower social grade) smokers were less likely than ABC1 (higher social grade) smokers to say they would smoke the same as they do now (OR

conclusionsIn response to a hypothetical minimum price for cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco, approximately a fifth of smokers in the UK indicated they would smoke less or quit and almost two-fifths of ex-smokers indicated the prices would help them stay quit.

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Electronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsTobacco ProductsAdultCommerceCross-Sectional StudiesEx-SmokersHumansSmokersTaxesUnited Kingdomhealth economicshealth policypublic health

Identifiers

PMID33753438
PMCPMC7986940
OpenAlexW3137671181

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