ArticlePsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2025
Measuring susceptibility to use tobacco in an increasingly complex consumer marketplace: How many questions do we really need?
Article in Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Removing Price Discounts From the Tobacco Retail Environment: Effects on College Students' Risk of Using Smokeless Tobacco, Little Cigars, and Electronic Nicotine Delivery Devices.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2026Trial
- Rapid tobacco surveillance among young people in six states: Methods and findings from the Center for Rapid Surveillance of Tobacco Youth and Young Adult Cohort.Preventive medicine reports · 2026Article
- The effect of removing point-of-purchase price discounts on college students' future tobacco use susceptibility depends on price sensitivity.Translational behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- How does removing menthol tobacco product displays at point-of-sale affect adolescents' cigarette smoking intentions? The mediating effects of social norms.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectivePredicting which young people are likely to use tobacco in the future is critical for prevention and intervention. Although measures for assessing susceptibility to using tobacco have fulfilled this goal for decades, there is almost no standard for the number of items that should be administered, or which items should be administered for which products. This study explored whether brief but psychometrically sound versions of commonly used susceptibility measures can adequately capture the construct relative to longer measures.
methodA sample of young people (
resultsAnalysis of these 33 items indicated that asking about the likelihood of using each tobacco product class when a best friend offers it (four items in all) captures 98.5% of information that is captured using the longer set of items; asking the best friend question for each product by each flavor category (11 items in all) captures 99.7% of the information.
conclusionsDepending on research needs, tobacco use susceptibility can be measured with little loss of information by administering a limited set of items assessing the likelihood that a young person will use a tobacco product if a friend offers it for any product-flavor combination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
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