Journal article
Long-term impact of plain packaging of cigarettes with larger graphic health warnings: findings from cross-sectional surveys of Australian adolescents between 2011 and 2017
Victoria M White, Nicola Guerin, Tahlia Williams, Melanie A Wakefield
TOBACCO CONTROL | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2019
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To assess the long-term impact of plain packaging (PP) of cigarettes with larger graphic health warnings (HW) introduced in December 2012 on adolescents' relevant tobacco-related perceptions. METHODS: Cross-sectional school-based surveys of 12 to 17 year olds in 2011 (n=4413), 2013 (n=4423), 2014 (n=4576) and 2017 (n=4266). Students rated the character of four popular cigarette brands, indicated their agreement regarding brand differences in smoking ease, quitting, addictiveness, harmfulness and pack attractiveness and positive/negative perceptions of pack image. The frequency of students reading, attending to, thinking and talking about HW was assessed. Responses of students seei..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Australian Government Department of Health, Victorian Government Department of Health and Human Services, Cancer Council Victoria.