Responses to tobacco control policies among youth
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Objective: Explore adolescents' response to current and potential tobacco control policy issues. Design: The 13 site Tobacco Control Network (TCN), sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conducted 129 sex and ethnic homogeneous focus groups. Participants: 785 white, African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, American Indian, and Hispanic adolescents who were primarily smokers from rural, urban, and suburban locations across the USA. Main outcome measures: Awareness, knowledge, opinions, and behaviour regarding laws and rules, prices, cigarette ingredients, and warning labels. Results: Teenagers were generally familiar with laws and rules about access and possession for minors, but believed them ineffective. They were knowledgeable about prices, and reported that a sharp and sudden increase could lead them to adjust their smoking patterns but could also have negative consequences. They found a list of chemical names of cigarette ingredients largely meaningless, but believed that disclosing and publicising their common uses could be an effective deterrent, especially for those who were not yet smoking. They were aware of current warning labels, but considered them uninformative and irrelevant. Conclusions: Understanding teenagers' attitudes and behaviours before implementing policies that will affect them will likely increase their effectiveness. Disclosing and publicising the chemical contents of cigarettes, and increasing prices quickly and sharply, are potentially effective areas for policy change to impact adolescent tobacco use.
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Observational, quasi-experimental, and short-term controlled studies demonstrate that warning labels are most effective in countering the attractiveness and persuasiveness of cigarettes when they are visually noticeable, avoid the use of chemical names or ingredients, are specific rather than general, include pictorial and especially graphic warnings, are attributed to a specific source rather
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- Authors
- Crawford, M. A., Balch, G. I., Mermelstein, R., & The Tobacco Control Network Writing Group
- Affiliations
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- Corresponding author
- Crawford, M A
- ORCID
- Mermelstein, R
- Venue
- Tobacco Control
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2002-03
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 14-19
- ISSN
- 0964-4563 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-3318
- PMC
- PMC1747664
- OpenAlex
- W2058597740
- Cited by
- 87
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 2.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Tobacco Control (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UNM’s Digital Repository (University of New Mexico) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Minnesota
- University of Washington
- Johns Hopkins University
- University of Oklahoma
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- University of South Carolina
- West Virginia University
- University of Alabama
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Keywords
- tobacco control, adolescent smoking, youth tobacco use, tobacco prices, cigarette warning labels, policy effectiveness, adolescent attitudes
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Ethnicity, Female, Humans, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Male, Product Labeling, Public Policy, Sex Factors, Smoking, Socioeconomic Factors, United States, Focus Groups, Tobacco Industry
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