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Trial reportTobacco control2025

US adolescents' response to nicotine warning labels in influencer e-cigarette marketing social media posts: a survey-based randomised between-subject experiment.

Julia Vassey, Erin A Vogel, Jennifer B Unger

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Tobacco control, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Demographic Trends in E-Cigarette Social Media Marketing: Perceiving Gender Presentation and Facial Age Via Computer Vision.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Julia VasseyDepartment of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA vassey@usc.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3002-2000
Erin A VogelTSET Health Promotion Research Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7193-8720
Jennifer B UngerDepartment of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9064-6603

Funding

USC Tobacco Center of Regulatory ScienceU54CA180905 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Jessica Louise Barrington-Trimis, Adam Matthew Leventhal · 2018 to 2026
$39.0M
Identifying and Addressing the Effects of Social Media Use on Young Adults' E-Cigarette Use: A Solutions-Oriented ApproachK01DA055073 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI Erin Alyssa Vogel · 2023 to 2026
$764k
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA180905NIDA NIH HHS K01 DA055073
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundE-cigarette promotional posts with misleading nicotine warning labels on social media may lower adolescents' risk perceptions of e-cigarettes. A between-subject experiment assessed effects of influencers' e-cigarette promotional posts with different nicotine warning labels on adolescents' e-cigarette harm perceptions, susceptibility to e-cigarette use and perceptions of influencer credibility.

methodsIn 2022, adolescents (N=1864, M

resultsParticipants who viewed posts with the FDA warning label at the top of the post perceived influencers as more honest, trustworthy and informed than in all the other conditions. E-cigarette never-users who viewed posts with a 'tobacco-free nicotine' warning label pictured on an e-cigarette (compared with the FDA label at the top of a post) were more likely to report susceptibility to e-cigarette use (adjusted OR 1.79, 95% CI 1.17 to 2.73).

conclusionsAlterations of the required nicotine warning labels can make them less effective in deterring e-cigarette use behaviour. Tobacco control authorities could increase enforcement of the FDA-required nicotine warning labels and harness influencers for antitobacco messaging.

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Adolescent BehaviorElectronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsNicotineProduct LabelingSocial MediaVapingAdolescentFemaleHumansMaleMarketingSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited StatesUnited States Food and Drug AdministrationNicotineAdvertising and PromotionElectronic nicotine delivery devicesMediaNicotinePublic policy

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PMID38749676
PMCPMC11569271

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