ArticleNPJ primary care respiratory medicine2023
Romanian young adult perceptions on using heated tobacco products following exposure to direct marketing methods.
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- The Role of Family and Peer Influence in Shaping Teen Smoking Attitudes in Romania.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Strengthening Tobacco Product Regulation: Addressing Challenges and Strategies for Articles 9 and 10 Implementation.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2025Article
- Nicotine consumption in Poland: from traditional cigarettes to modern products - a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The Health Effects of Heated Tobacco Product Use-A Narrative Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Associations of Individual Characteristics and Socioeconomic Status With Heated Tobacco Product Harmfulness Perceptions in Japan: A Nationwide Cross-sectional Study (INFORM Study 2020).Journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Heated tobacco product marketing: a mixed-methods study examining exposure and perceptions among US and Israeli adults.Health education research · 2024Article
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- The FRESHAIR4Life study: Global implementation research on non-communicable disease prevention targeting adolescents' exposure to tobacco and air pollution in disadvantaged populations.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2024Review
- Status of Healthy Choices, Attitudes and Health Education of Children and Young People in Romania-A Literature Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Review
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Heated tobacco products have a rapid uptake, especially among young people, mostly where advertising is unregulated, as is the case in Romania. This qualitative study explores the influence of direct marketing methods of heated tobacco products on young people, their perception and behaviour towards smoking. We have carried out 19 interviews with smokers of heated tobacco products (HTPs) or/and combustible cigarettes (CCs) or non-smokers (NS), aged 18-26. Using the thematic analysis, we have identified three overarching themes: (1) people, places, and subjects of marketing, (2) engagement with risk narratives and (3) social body, family bonds, and autonomous self. Even if most of the participants have been exposed to a mix of marketing methods, they did not acknowledge the influence that marketing has on their decision to experience smoking. Young adults' decision to use heated tobacco products seems to be influenced by a cluster of reasons: overcoming the legislation gap which prohibits indoor use of combustible cigarettes but not heated tobacco products; the attractivity of the product (novelty, inviting appearance, technological appeal and price) and presumed less damaging effects on health.
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