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ABSTRACT: Objectives
To explore young adult smokers' perceptions of cigarette pack inserts promoting cessation and cigarettes designed to be dissuasive.Design
Cross-sectional online survey.Setting
UK.Participants
The final sample was 1766 young adult smokers, with 50.3% male and 71.6% white British. To meet the inclusion criteria, participants had to be 16-34 years old and smoke factory-made cigarettes.Primary and secondary outcome measures
Salience of inserts, perceptions of inserts as information provision, perceptions of inserts on quitting, support for inserts and perceived appeal, harm and trial of three cigarettes (a standard cigarette, a standard cigarette displaying the warning 'Smoking kills' and a green cigarette).Results
Half the sample indicated that they would read inserts with three-fifths indicating that they are a good way to provide information about quitting (61%). Just over half indicated that inserts would make them think more about quitting (53%), help if they decided to quit (52%), are an effective way of encouraging smokers to quit (53%) and supported having them in all packs (55%). Participants who smoked factory-made cigarettes and other tobacco products (compared with exclusive factory-made cigarette smokers), had made a quit attempt within the last 6?months (compared with those that had never made a quit attempt) or were likely to make a successful quit attempt in the next 6?months (compared with those unlikely to make a quit attempt in the next 6?months) were more likely to indicate that inserts could assist with cessation. Multivariable logistic regression modelling suggested that compared with the standard cigarette, the cigarette with warning (adjusted OR=17.71; 95%?CI 13.75 to 22.80) and green cigarette (adjusted OR=30.88; 95%?CI 23.98 to 39.76) were much less desirable (less appealing, more harmful and less likely to be tried).Conclusions
Inserts and dissuasive cigarettes offer policy makers additional ways of using the pack to reduce smoking.
SUBMITTER: Moodie CS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6129040 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moodie Crawford S CS Hiscock Rosemary R Thrasher Jim J Reid Garth G
BMJ open 20180905 9
<h4>Objectives</h4>To explore young adult smokers' perceptions of cigarette pack inserts promoting cessation and cigarettes designed to be dissuasive.<h4>Design</h4>Cross-sectional online survey.<h4>Setting</h4>UK.<h4>Participants</h4>The final sample was 1766 young adult smokers, with 50.3% male and 71.6% white British. To meet the inclusion criteria, participants had to be 16-34 years old and smoke factory-made cigarettes.<h4>Primary and secondary outcome measures</h4>Salience of inserts, perc ...[more]