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- Title
Effectiveness of Text versus Pictorial Health Warning Labels and Predictors of Support for Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products within the European Union.
- Authors
agaku, Israel T.; Filippidis, Filippos T.; Vardavas, Constantine I.
- Abstract
Background: Tobacco product warning labels are a key health communication medium with plain packaging noted as the next step in the evolution of tobacco packaging. We assessed the self-reported impact of text versus pictorial health warnings and the determinants of support for plain packaging of tobacco products in the European Union (EU). Methods: The Special Eurobarometer 385 survey was analyzed for 26,566 adults from 27 EU countries in 2012. The self-reported impact of warning labels (text or pictorial) and determinants of EU-wide support for plain packaging were assessed using multivariate logistic regression. Results: Current smokers in countries where cigarette pictorial warnings were implemented had higher odds of reporting that health warning labels had any effect on their smoking behavior (making a quit attempt or reducing number of cigarettes smoked per day) compared to respondents in countries with text-only warning labels (adjusted odds ratio, aOR = 1.31; 95% confidence interval, 95% CI: 1.10-1.56). Population support for plain packaging of tobacco packs was higher in countries where cigarette pictorial warnings already existed (aOR = 1.17; 95% CI: 1.07-1.28). Conclusions: These findings indicate that the implementation of pictorial warnings at an EU level may have a positive behavioral impact among smokers and pave the way for population support for plain packaging in the EU. © 2014 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Union countries; WARNING labels; TOBACCO products; PACKAGING research; CIGARETTE smokers; LOGISTIC regression analysis; CONFIDENCE intervals; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
European Addiction Research, 2014, Vol 21, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
1022-6877
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000366019