Attitudes toward anti-tobacco policy among California youth: associations with smoking status, psychosocial variables and advocacy actions

Unger, Jennifer B.; Rohrbach, Louise Ann; Howard, Kim Ammann; Cruz, Tess Boley; Johnson, C. Anderson; Chen, Xinguang

doi:10.1093/her/14.6.751

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“…Advertisements that foster sympathy for tobacco companies may weaken support for anti-tobacco policies, an outcome that has negative consequences for adolescent smoking. 54 Although the study results did not demonstrate a boomerang effect of industry sponsored advertisements on adolescents' intention to smoke, there are other ways in which the messages may backfire. Future research should determine whether the tobacco companies' ads make audiences more resistant to criticism of the tobacco industry or otherwise dilute the impact of industry focused tobacco control campaigns.…”

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confidence: 63%

Industry sponsored anti-smoking ads and adolescent reactance: test of a boomerang effect

Henriksen

Dauphinee²,

Wang³

et al. 2006

Tob Control

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Objective: To examine whether adolescents' exposure to youth smoking prevention ads sponsored by tobacco companies promotes intentions to smoke, curiosity about smoking, and positive attitudes toward the tobacco industry. Design: A randomised controlled experiment compared adolescents' responses to five smoking prevention ads sponsored by a tobacco company (Philip Morris or Lorillard), or to five smoking prevention ads sponsored by a non-profit organisation (the American Legacy Foundation), or to five ads about preventing drunk driving. Setting: A large public high school in California's central valley. Subjects: A convenience sample of 9th and 10th graders (n = 832) ages 14-17 years. Main outcome measures: Perceptions of ad effectiveness, intention to smoke, and attitudes toward tobacco companies measured immediately after exposure. Results: As predicted, adolescents rated Philip Morris and Lorillard ads less favourably than the other youth smoking prevention ads. Adolescents' intention to smoke did not differ as a function of ad exposure. However, exposure to Philip Morris and Lorillard ads engendered more favourable attitudes toward tobacco companies. Conclusions: This study demonstrates that industry sponsored anti-smoking ads do more to promote corporate image than to prevent youth smoking. By cultivating public opinion that is more sympathetic toward tobacco companies, the effect of such advertising is likely to be more harmful than helpful to youth.

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confidence: 63%

Industry sponsored anti-smoking ads and adolescent reactance: test of a boomerang effect

Henriksen

Dauphinee²,

Wang³

et al. 2006

Tob Control

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“…In adolescence policy support is significantly associated with psychosocial tobacco-related variables (e.g. perceived consequences of smoking, friends' smoking, perceived access to cigarettes, prevalence estimates of smoking among peers, cigarette offers and cigarette refusal self-efficacy) (8). However, to our knowledge none of these studies has related exposure to ETS to these variables in a population based sample of non-smokers and smokers.…”

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confidence: 90%

The Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Attitudes Towards Tobacco Control Measures - A Comparison of 5 European Countries

Thyrian

Panagiotakos²,

Polychronopulos³

et al. 2010

Cent Eur J Public Health

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SUMMARYObjectives: (a) to examine exposure to ETS in 5 European countries that differ in their tobacco control (TC) activity, (b) to examine attitudes towards TC measures and (c) to relate these results to sociodemographic and smoking related variables.Methods: population-based, representative sample of n=3,500 participants age 16-59, in Germany, Greece, Poland, Sweden, UK.Results: most never smokers are exposed to ETS in leisure time (55.74%); chances of being exposed to ETS at home or outside of the home are dependent on sex, smoking status, country, whether there are smokers in the households, what the status of the relationship is (single vs. not single); results differ significantly between countries.Conclusion: smoking restrictions are associated with lower levels of actual exposure to ETS. non-smokers want governmental regulation.

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“…Because some individuals may not consider smoking behaviors a serious hazard to work performance, and smoking is legal over the age of nineteen in Korea, they may consider a high severity smoke-free policy to be an unfair restriction on individuals' free and private behaviors. Anti-tobacco policies and campaigns can been seen as restrictions of freedom and autonomy (Unger et al, 1999). If a smokefree policy can be seen as a threat to individual freedom and an abuse of power, the policy can lead job applicants to consider the organization as an unattractive workplace.…”

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Organizational attraction toward a company that adopts a smoke-free policy

Park

Dalsey

Kang³

et al. 2010

Asia Pac J Manag

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The current study investigated Korean smokers' and non-smokers' evaluations of an organization implementing a policy which either mandated or recommended that employees quit smoking. Undergraduates (n = 268) were randomly assigned to one of 2 (high vs. low severity of smoke-free policy implementation) × 2 (high vs. low organizational assistance) conditions and indicated their attraction to a hypothetical organization, posing as job applicants. The findings showed that non-smoking individuals' perception of organizational support was more strongly and positively related to organizational attraction when they were more likely to endorse employers' right to control employee smoking behaviors. Ex-smokers indicated greater attraction toward the organization when it was described as implementing a high severity policy than a low severity policy. Non-smokers indicated greater attraction toward the organization when it was described as offering a high level of assistance than a low level of assistance for smokers' cessation efforts. These and other findings concerning individuals'

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Attitudes toward anti-tobacco policy among California youth: associations with smoking status, psychosocial variables and advocacy actions

Cited by 81 publications

References 16 publications

Industry sponsored anti-smoking ads and adolescent reactance: test of a boomerang effect

Industry sponsored anti-smoking ads and adolescent reactance: test of a boomerang effect

The Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Attitudes Towards Tobacco Control Measures - A Comparison of 5 European Countries

Organizational attraction toward a company that adopts a smoke-free policy

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