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Impact of the New Malaysian Cigarette Pack Warnings on Smokers’ Awareness of Health Risks and Interest in Quitting Smoking

The objective of this research was to compare the response of adult smokers in Malaysia to newly proposed pictorial cigarette warnings against the current text-only warnings. The study population included 140 adult male smokers who were enrolled in a randomized trial to view either the new pictorial...

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Autores principales: Fathelrahman, Ahmed I., Omar, Maizurah, Awang, Rahmat, Cummings, K. Michael, Borland, Ron, Samin, Ahmad Shalihin Bin Mohd
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139879
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7114089
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author Fathelrahman, Ahmed I.
Omar, Maizurah
Awang, Rahmat
Cummings, K. Michael
Borland, Ron
Samin, Ahmad Shalihin Bin Mohd
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description The objective of this research was to compare the response of adult smokers in Malaysia to newly proposed pictorial cigarette warnings against the current text-only warnings. The study population included 140 adult male smokers who were enrolled in a randomized trial to view either the new pictorial warnings (intervention) or the old text-only warnings (control). Participants completed pre-exposure and post-exposure questionnaires that assessed their awareness of the health risks of smoking, response to the package warnings, and interest in quitting smoking. Exposure to the pictorial warnings resulted in increased awareness of the risks of smoking, stronger behavioral response to the warnings and increased interest in quitting smoking. The new warnings in Malaysia will increase smokers’ knowledge of the adverse health effects of smoking and have a positive effect on interest in quitting.
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spelling pubmed-29962272010-12-06 Impact of the New Malaysian Cigarette Pack Warnings on Smokers’ Awareness of Health Risks and Interest in Quitting Smoking Fathelrahman, Ahmed I. Omar, Maizurah Awang, Rahmat Cummings, K. Michael Borland, Ron Samin, Ahmad Shalihin Bin Mohd Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The objective of this research was to compare the response of adult smokers in Malaysia to newly proposed pictorial cigarette warnings against the current text-only warnings. The study population included 140 adult male smokers who were enrolled in a randomized trial to view either the new pictorial warnings (intervention) or the old text-only warnings (control). Participants completed pre-exposure and post-exposure questionnaires that assessed their awareness of the health risks of smoking, response to the package warnings, and interest in quitting smoking. Exposure to the pictorial warnings resulted in increased awareness of the risks of smoking, stronger behavioral response to the warnings and increased interest in quitting smoking. The new warnings in Malaysia will increase smokers’ knowledge of the adverse health effects of smoking and have a positive effect on interest in quitting. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010-11 2010-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC2996227/ /pubmed/21139879 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7114089 Text en © 2010 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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title_fullStr Impact of the New Malaysian Cigarette Pack Warnings on Smokers’ Awareness of Health Risks and Interest in Quitting Smoking
title_full_unstemmed Impact of the New Malaysian Cigarette Pack Warnings on Smokers’ Awareness of Health Risks and Interest in Quitting Smoking
title_short Impact of the New Malaysian Cigarette Pack Warnings on Smokers’ Awareness of Health Risks and Interest in Quitting Smoking
title_sort impact of the new malaysian cigarette pack warnings on smokers’ awareness of health risks and interest in quitting smoking
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139879
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7114089
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