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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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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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Fathelrahman, Ahmed I. Omar, Maizurah Awang, Rahmat Cummings, K. Michael Borland, Ron Samin, Ahmad Shalihin Bin Mohd Impact of the New Malaysian Cigarette Pack Warnings on Smokers’ Awareness of Health Risks and Interest in Quitting Smoking |
title | Impact of the New Malaysian Cigarette Pack Warnings on Smokers’ Awareness of Health Risks and Interest in Quitting Smoking |
title_full | Impact of the New Malaysian Cigarette Pack Warnings on Smokers’ Awareness of Health Risks and Interest in Quitting Smoking |
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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