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Does Adding Information on Toxic Constituents to Cigarette Pack Warnings Increase Smokers' Perceptions About the Health Risks of Smoking? A Longitudinal Study in Australia, Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

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Cho, YJ; Thrasher, JF; Swayampakala, K; Lipkus, I; Hammond, D; Cummings, KM; Borland, R; Yong, H-H; Hardin, JW
Published in: Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education
February 2018

Health warning labels (HWLs) on cigarette packs in Australia, Canada, Mexico, and the United States include varying information about toxic cigarette smoke constituents and smoking-related health risks. HWL information changed more recently in Australia, Canada, and Mexico than in the United States.To investigate whether smokers' knowledge of toxic constituents and perceived smoking-related risks increased after adding this information to HWLs and how knowledge of toxic constituents is associated with perceptions of smoking-related risks.Data come from a longitudinal, online cohort of 4,621 adult smokers surveyed every 4 months from September 2012 (Wave 1) to January 2014 (Wave 5) in Australia, Canada, and Mexico, with the United States being surveyed from Waves 2 to 5. Generalized estimating equation models estimated the association between perceived smoking-related risk at follow-up and prior wave knowledge of toxic constituents, adjusting for attention to HWLs, sociodemographics, and smoking-related characteristics.Between 2012 and 2014, knowledge of toxic constituents increased in Australia, Canada, and Mexico ( p < .001), but not in the United States. Higher levels of both attention to HWLs and knowledge of toxic constituents were associated with a higher perceived risk of smoking-related conditions at follow-up across all countries except for the United States.Our results suggest that information about toxic constituents on prominent HWLs not only increases smoker's knowledge of toxic constituents, but that it may also reinforce the effects of HWL messages about specific, smoking-related health outcomes.

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Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education

DOI

EISSN

1552-6127

ISSN

1090-1981

Publication Date

February 2018

Volume

45

Issue

1

Start / End Page

32 / 42

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Tobacco Products
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Smoking
  • Risk Factors
  • Public Health
  • Product Labeling
  • Perception
  • Male
  • Longitudinal Studies
 

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Cho, Y. J., Thrasher, J. F., Swayampakala, K., Lipkus, I., Hammond, D., Cummings, K. M., … Hardin, J. W. (2018). Does Adding Information on Toxic Constituents to Cigarette Pack Warnings Increase Smokers' Perceptions About the Health Risks of Smoking? A Longitudinal Study in Australia, Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Health Education & Behavior : The Official Publication of the Society for Public Health Education, 45(1), 32–42. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198117709884
Cho, Yoo Jin, James F. Thrasher, Kamala Swayampakala, Isaac Lipkus, David Hammond, Kenneth Michael Cummings, Ron Borland, Hua-Hie Yong, and James W. Hardin. “Does Adding Information on Toxic Constituents to Cigarette Pack Warnings Increase Smokers' Perceptions About the Health Risks of Smoking? A Longitudinal Study in Australia, Canada, Mexico, and the United States.Health Education & Behavior : The Official Publication of the Society for Public Health Education 45, no. 1 (February 2018): 32–42. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198117709884.
Cho YJ, Thrasher JF, Swayampakala K, Lipkus I, Hammond D, Cummings KM, et al. Does Adding Information on Toxic Constituents to Cigarette Pack Warnings Increase Smokers' Perceptions About the Health Risks of Smoking? A Longitudinal Study in Australia, Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education. 2018 Feb;45(1):32–42.
Cho, Yoo Jin, et al. “Does Adding Information on Toxic Constituents to Cigarette Pack Warnings Increase Smokers' Perceptions About the Health Risks of Smoking? A Longitudinal Study in Australia, Canada, Mexico, and the United States.Health Education & Behavior : The Official Publication of the Society for Public Health Education, vol. 45, no. 1, Feb. 2018, pp. 32–42. Epmc, doi:10.1177/1090198117709884.
Cho YJ, Thrasher JF, Swayampakala K, Lipkus I, Hammond D, Cummings KM, Borland R, Yong H-H, Hardin JW. Does Adding Information on Toxic Constituents to Cigarette Pack Warnings Increase Smokers' Perceptions About the Health Risks of Smoking? A Longitudinal Study in Australia, Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education. 2018 Feb;45(1):32–42.
Journal cover image

Published In

Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education

DOI

EISSN

1552-6127

ISSN

1090-1981

Publication Date

February 2018

Volume

45

Issue

1

Start / End Page

32 / 42

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Tobacco Products
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Smoking
  • Risk Factors
  • Public Health
  • Product Labeling
  • Perception
  • Male
  • Longitudinal Studies