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Cigarette pack messages about toxic chemicals: a randomised clinical trial
BACKGROUND: The USA can require tobacco companies to disclose information about harmful and potentially harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke, but the impact of these messages is uncertain. We sought to assess the effect of placing messages about toxic chemicals on smokers’ cigarette packs. METHODS:...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6186198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29654122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2017-054112 |
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author | Brewer, Noel T Jeong, Michelle Mendel, Jennifer R Hall, Marissa G Zhang, Dongyu Parada Jr, Humberto Boynton, Marcella H Noar, Seth M Baig, Sabeeh A Morgan, Jennifer C Ribisl, Kurt M |
author_facet | Brewer, Noel T Jeong, Michelle Mendel, Jennifer R Hall, Marissa G Zhang, Dongyu Parada Jr, Humberto Boynton, Marcella H Noar, Seth M Baig, Sabeeh A Morgan, Jennifer C Ribisl, Kurt M |
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description | BACKGROUND: The USA can require tobacco companies to disclose information about harmful and potentially harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke, but the impact of these messages is uncertain. We sought to assess the effect of placing messages about toxic chemicals on smokers’ cigarette packs. METHODS: Participants were 719 adult cigarette smokers from California, USA, recruited from September 2016 through March 2017. We randomly assigned smokers to receive either factual messages about chemicals in cigarette smoke and their health harms (intervention) or messages about not littering cigarette butts (control) on the side of their cigarette packs for 3 weeks. The primary trial outcome was intention to quit smoking. RESULTS: In intent-to-treat analyses, smokers whose packs had chemical messages did not have higher intentions to quit smoking at the end of the trial than those whose packs had control messages (P=0.56). Compared with control messages, chemical messages led to higher awareness of the chemicals (28% vs 15%, P<0.001) and health harms (60% vs 52%, P=0.02) featured in the messages. In addition, chemical messages led to greater negative affect, thinking about the chemicals in cigarettes and the harms of smoking, conversations about the messages and forgoing a cigarette (all P<0.05). DISCUSSION: Chemical messages on cigarette packs did not lead to higher intentions to quit among smokers in our trial. However, chemical messages informed smokers of chemicals in cigarettes and harms of smoking, which directly supports their implementation and would be critical to defending the messages against cigarette company legal challenges. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT02785484. |
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spelling | pubmed-61861982019-01-01 Cigarette pack messages about toxic chemicals: a randomised clinical trial Brewer, Noel T Jeong, Michelle Mendel, Jennifer R Hall, Marissa G Zhang, Dongyu Parada Jr, Humberto Boynton, Marcella H Noar, Seth M Baig, Sabeeh A Morgan, Jennifer C Ribisl, Kurt M Tob Control Research Paper BACKGROUND: The USA can require tobacco companies to disclose information about harmful and potentially harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke, but the impact of these messages is uncertain. We sought to assess the effect of placing messages about toxic chemicals on smokers’ cigarette packs. METHODS: Participants were 719 adult cigarette smokers from California, USA, recruited from September 2016 through March 2017. We randomly assigned smokers to receive either factual messages about chemicals in cigarette smoke and their health harms (intervention) or messages about not littering cigarette butts (control) on the side of their cigarette packs for 3 weeks. The primary trial outcome was intention to quit smoking. RESULTS: In intent-to-treat analyses, smokers whose packs had chemical messages did not have higher intentions to quit smoking at the end of the trial than those whose packs had control messages (P=0.56). Compared with control messages, chemical messages led to higher awareness of the chemicals (28% vs 15%, P<0.001) and health harms (60% vs 52%, P=0.02) featured in the messages. In addition, chemical messages led to greater negative affect, thinking about the chemicals in cigarettes and the harms of smoking, conversations about the messages and forgoing a cigarette (all P<0.05). DISCUSSION: Chemical messages on cigarette packs did not lead to higher intentions to quit among smokers in our trial. However, chemical messages informed smokers of chemicals in cigarettes and harms of smoking, which directly supports their implementation and would be critical to defending the messages against cigarette company legal challenges. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT02785484. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-01 2018-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6186198/ /pubmed/29654122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2017-054112 Text en © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2019. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Research Paper Brewer, Noel T Jeong, Michelle Mendel, Jennifer R Hall, Marissa G Zhang, Dongyu Parada Jr, Humberto Boynton, Marcella H Noar, Seth M Baig, Sabeeh A Morgan, Jennifer C Ribisl, Kurt M Cigarette pack messages about toxic chemicals: a randomised clinical trial |
title | Cigarette pack messages about toxic chemicals: a randomised clinical trial |
title_full | Cigarette pack messages about toxic chemicals: a randomised clinical trial |
title_fullStr | Cigarette pack messages about toxic chemicals: a randomised clinical trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Cigarette pack messages about toxic chemicals: a randomised clinical trial |
title_short | Cigarette pack messages about toxic chemicals: a randomised clinical trial |
title_sort | cigarette pack messages about toxic chemicals: a randomised clinical trial |
topic | Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6186198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29654122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2017-054112 |
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