Promoting cessation resources through cigarette package warning labels: a longitudinal survey with adult smokers in Canada, Australia and Mexico

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Tobacco control

Tob.Control

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PMID: 25052860

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Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; IM

10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014-051589 [doi]

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INTRODUCTION: Health warning labels (HWLs) on tobacco packaging can be used to provide smoking cessation information, but the impact of this information is not well understood. METHODS: Online consumer panels of adult smokers from Canada, Australia and Mexico were surveyed in September 2012, January 2013 and May 2013; replenishment was used to maintain sample sizes of 1000 participants in each country at each wave. Country-stratified logistic Generalised Estimating Equation (GEE) models were estimated to assess correlates of citing HWLs as a source of information on quitlines and cessation websites. GEE models also regressed having called the quitline, and having visited a cessation website, on awareness of these resources because of HWLs. RESULTS: At baseline, citing HWLs as a source of information about quitlines was highest in Canada, followed by Australia and Mexico (33%, 19% and 16%, respectively). Significant increases over time were only evident in Australia and Mexico. In all countries, citing HWLs as a source of quitline information was significantly associated with self-report of having called a quitline. At baseline, citing HWLs as a source of information about cessation websites was higher in Canada than in Australia (14% and 6%, respectively; Mexico was excluded because HWLs do not include website information), but no significant changes over time were found for either country. Citing HWLs as a source of information about cessation websites was significantly associated with having visited a website in both Canada and Australia. CONCLUSIONS: HWLs are an important source of cessation information.

Thrasher,J.F., Osman,A., Moodie,C., Hammond,D., Bansal-Travers,M., Cummings,K.M., Borland,R., Yong,H.H., Hardin,J.

University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico.; University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.; University of Stirling, Scotland, UK.; University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ca

20140722

PMC4368699

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2015