Young children’s perceptions of health warning labels on cigarette packages: a study in six countries

AIM: Health warning labels on cigarette packages are one way to reach youth thinking about initiating tobacco use. The purpose of this study was to examine awareness and understanding of current health warning labels among 5 and 6 year old children. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Researchers conducted one-on...

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Autores principales: Borzekowski, Dina L. G., Cohen, Joanna E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3965830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24683296
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10389-014-0612-0
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description AIM: Health warning labels on cigarette packages are one way to reach youth thinking about initiating tobacco use. The purpose of this study was to examine awareness and understanding of current health warning labels among 5 and 6 year old children. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Researchers conducted one-on-one interviews with urban and rural 5 and 6 year olds from Brazil, China, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Russia. RESULTS: Among the 2,423 participating children, 62 % were unaware of the health warnings currently featured on cigarette packages, with the lowest levels of awareness in India and the highest levels in Brazil. When shown the messages, the same percentage of participating children (62 %) showed no level of message understanding. CONCLUSION: While youth are receiving social and informational messages promoting tobacco use, health warning labels featured on cigarette packages are not effectively reaching young children with anti-smoking messages.
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spelling pubmed-39658302014-03-28 Young children’s perceptions of health warning labels on cigarette packages: a study in six countries Borzekowski, Dina L. G. Cohen, Joanna E. Z Gesundh Wiss Original Article AIM: Health warning labels on cigarette packages are one way to reach youth thinking about initiating tobacco use. The purpose of this study was to examine awareness and understanding of current health warning labels among 5 and 6 year old children. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Researchers conducted one-on-one interviews with urban and rural 5 and 6 year olds from Brazil, China, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Russia. RESULTS: Among the 2,423 participating children, 62 % were unaware of the health warnings currently featured on cigarette packages, with the lowest levels of awareness in India and the highest levels in Brazil. When shown the messages, the same percentage of participating children (62 %) showed no level of message understanding. CONCLUSION: While youth are receiving social and informational messages promoting tobacco use, health warning labels featured on cigarette packages are not effectively reaching young children with anti-smoking messages. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014-02-26 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3965830/ /pubmed/24683296 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10389-014-0612-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2014 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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title_fullStr Young children’s perceptions of health warning labels on cigarette packages: a study in six countries
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title_short Young children’s perceptions of health warning labels on cigarette packages: a study in six countries
title_sort young children’s perceptions of health warning labels on cigarette packages: a study in six countries
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3965830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24683296
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