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Trial reportAddictive behaviors2022

Cognitive and emotional responses to pictorial warning labels and their association with quitting measures after continued exposure.

Anupreet K Sidhu, Andrea C Johnson, Valentina Souprountchouk, Olivia Wackowski, Andrew A Strasser, Melissa Mercincavage

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Trial report in Addictive behaviors, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Effects of Pictorial Health Warning Labels on Intention to Quit Waterpipe in Lebanon: A Mediation Analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Anupreet K SidhuUniversity of Pennsylvania Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (UPenn TCORS) and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction (CIRNA), Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States. Electronic address: anupreet.sidhu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Andrea C JohnsonUniversity of Pennsylvania Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (UPenn TCORS) and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction (CIRNA), Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Valentina SouprountchoukUniversity of Pennsylvania Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (UPenn TCORS) and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction (CIRNA), Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Olivia WackowskiDepartment of Health Behavior, Society and Policy, Rutgers School of Public Health, and Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.
Andrew A StrasserUniversity of Pennsylvania Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (UPenn TCORS) and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction (CIRNA), Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Melissa MercincavageUniversity of Pennsylvania Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (UPenn TCORS) and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction (CIRNA), Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Funding

Tobacco Industry Marketing CoreU54CA229973 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI DELNEVO, CRISTINE D · 2018 to 2022
$18.8M
Laboratory-based Approaches to Understanding the Impact of Low Nicotine Content Cigarette Marketing on Young AdultsK07CA218366 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI MERCINCAVAGE, MELISSA · 2018 to 2022
$767k
NCI NIH HHS K07 CA218366NCI NIH HHS U54 CA229973
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivePrevious research has highlighted the role of cognitive and affective mediators in facilitating the effectiveness of pictorial warning labels (PWLs). This study examines smokers' responses towards PWLs after 10 days of use and their associations with changes in quitting attitudes, beliefs, and intentions during this period.

methodsNon-treatment-seeking, daily smokers completed a randomized, parallel design trial. Participants were randomized to either a PWL or control (i.e., text only or no warning label) group and received their preferred brand cigarettes affixed with their assigned label for 10 days. We assessed quitting attitudes, intentions, and beliefs at the onset and end of the study. At study end, smokers rated their PWL on a 5-point scale for 8 cognitive and emotional attributes: memorable, understandable, shocking, informative, offensive, boring, relevant, and interesting.

resultsMean ratings of the PWLs were high for memorable, understandable, informative, relevant, and interesting (range = 3.4 to 4.0), moderate for shocking (2.9), and low for offensive (1.7), and boring (1.5). Among the PWLs, quitting-related attitudes, positive beliefs, and intentions increased over the study period (p < .001) and these changes were positively associated with most attributes except offensive and boring (p < .05). For the text-only label group, attitudes and intentions increased significantly but these changes were not associated with any attributes.

conclusionSmokers generally have favorable evaluations of PWLs following repeated exposures. Further, these evaluations are associated with increased quitting attitudes and intentions, which may facilitate cessation attempts over longer periods of exposure.

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Smoking CessationTobacco ProductsCognitionEmotionsHumansProduct LabelingSmoking PreventionCigarette smokingCognitive responsesExperimentalTobacco regulatory scienceWarning labels

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PMID34583271
PMCPMC8603253

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