Experience of Smokers and Recent Quitters with Smokefree Regulations and Quitting

Betzner, Anne; Boyle, Raymond G.; Luxenberg, Michael G.; Schillo, Barbara; Keller, P. A.; Rainey, Julie; Capesius, Traci R; Saul, Jessie E.

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2012.08.005

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“…Therefore, immediate reductions in cigarette use post-tax should be seen as fragile, which is consistent with a small body of existing literature [ 22 ]. These findings support previous studies that report an increase in calls to telephone quitlines for a short period immediately before and after a tax, and that recommend timing cessation messages to capture quitters during this vulnerable time [ 21 ].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

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Price-Minimizing Behaviors in a Cohort of Smokers before and after a Cigarette Tax Increase

Betzner

Boyle

Claire

2016

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Cigarette tax increases result in a reduced demand for cigarettes and increased efforts by smokers to reduce their cost of smoking. Less is known about how smokers think about their expenditures for cigarettes and the possible mechanisms that underlie price-minimizing behaviors. In-depth longitudinal interviews were conducted with Minnesota smokers to explore the factors that influence smokers’ decisions one month prior to a $1.75 cigarette tax increase and again one and three months after the increase. A total of 42 were sampled with 35 completed interviews at all three time points, resulting in 106 interviews across all participants at all time points. A qualitative descriptive approach examined smoking and buying habits, as well as reasons behind these decisions. A hierarchy of ways to save money on cigarettes included saving the most money by changing to roll your own pipe tobacco, changing to a cheaper brand, cutting down or quitting, changing to cigarillos, and buying online. Using coupons, shopping around, buying by the carton, changing the style of cigarette, and stocking up prior to the tax increase were described as less effective. Five factors emerged as impacting smokers’ efforts to save money on cigarettes after the tax: brand loyalty, frugality, addiction, stress, and acclimation.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Price-Minimizing Behaviors in a Cohort of Smokers before and after a Cigarette Tax Increase

Betzner

Boyle

Claire

2016

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“…One study identified older smokers as being more aware of smoking stereotypes and how they have evolved and intensified over time (Betzner et al, 2012). The second study found that gender difference in stereotypes – specifically the stronger negative stereotypes for women- was stronger in older generations than younger ones.…”

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The downside of tobacco control? Smoking and self-stigma: A systematic review

Evans-Polce

Castaldelli-Maia

Schomerus

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Social Science & Medicine

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Objective Little is known about the consequences of tobacco smoking stigma on smokers and how smokers may internalize smoking-related stigma. This review summarizes existing literature on tobacco smoking self-stigma, investigating to what extent smokers are aware of negative stereotypes, agree with them and apply them to themselves. Methods We carried out a systematic search of Pubmed/Web of Science/PsycInfo databases for articles related to smoking self-stigma through June 2013. Reference lists and citations of included studies were also checked and experts were contacted. After screening articles for inclusion/exclusion criteria we performed a quality assessment and summarized findings according to the stages of self-stigma as conceptualized in Corrigan’s progressive model of self-stigma (aware, agree, apply and harm). Initial searches yielded 570 articles. Results Thirty of these articles (18 qualitative and 12 quantitative studies) met criteria for our review. Awareness of smoking stigma was virtually universal across studies. Coping strategies for smoking stigma and the degree to which individuals who smoke internalized this stigma varied both within and across studies. There was considerable variation in positive, negative, and non-significant consequences associated with smoking self-stigma. Limited evidence was found for subgroup differences in smokingrelated stigma. Conclusion While there is some evidence that smoking self-stigma leads to reductions in smoking, this review also identified significant negative consequences of smoking self-stigma. Future research should assess the factors related to differences in how individuals respond to smoking stigma. Public health strategies which limit the stigmatization of smokers may be warranted.

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“…Tobacco control measures, when properly implemented, can have an impact on population smoking rates (Gravely et al, 2017;Ngo, Cheng, Chaloupka, & Shang, 2017). Some measures work indirectly through social norms (Rennen et al, 2014), particularly smoking bans (Betzner et al, 2012) and mass media campaigns that denormalise smoking (Durkin, Brennan, & Wakefield, 2012). A more detailed discussion of the effectiveness of different tobacco control measures appears in Chap.…”

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The Social and Cultural Environment

Willemsen

2018

Tobacco Control Policy in the Netherlands

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Policy is not made in a vacuum. Disputes over tobacco control are fought within changing policy environments. This chapter explores key population-level factors that influence a national government's decision to adopt tobacco control policy measures. These factors include social norms about smoking, the proportion of smokers in the population, societal support for tobacco control, and cultural values. These factors are interrelated in a specific way and to understand this, we will take a short detour into what is sometimes called "system thinking in tobacco control." Ten years ago, the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) published a monograph on this topic (Best, Clark, Leichow, & Trochim, 2007), which acknowledged the complexity of tobacco control at the national level, involving as it does the interplay of factors over long periods of time, including feedback loops. According to experts from the NCI, a government's willingness to acknowledge and address the smoking problem follows from its level of awareness that tobacco is a problem, and from the balance of lobbying forces that propose or hold back policy solutions. A government's awareness of the problems associated with tobacco is further affected by specific population factors that are amenable to change. A country's smoking rate is one of these: as long as the proportion of smokers is high, the government is more likely to be aware that there is a public health risk that needs to be addressed. Changes in the number of smokers also affect public support for tobacco control, which increases when adult smoking rates go

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Experience of Smokers and Recent Quitters with Smokefree Regulations and Quitting

Cited by 16 publications

References 22 publications

Price-Minimizing Behaviors in a Cohort of Smokers before and after a Cigarette Tax Increase

Price-Minimizing Behaviors in a Cohort of Smokers before and after a Cigarette Tax Increase

The downside of tobacco control? Smoking and self-stigma: A systematic review

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