Standardised cigarettes: the next step for tobacco policy?

Eijk, Yvette van der

doi:10.1136/tc-2022-057417

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“…A standardized cigarette policy is an innovative concept that considers the dissuasive technique together with banning flavors and adjusting nicotine, as three pillars that together form an effective tool for preventing tobacco companies from getting around marketing restrictions 27 .…”

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Perceptions of health warnings on cigarette sticks among the adult population in Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia: A crosssectional survey

Al-Ahmadi,

Almatrafi,

Ali

et al. 2024

Tob. Induc. Dis.

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INTRODUCTION Health warnings on cigarette sticks are emerging as a tool to control tobacco consumption; hence, understanding how they are perceived is valuable in determining their effectiveness. Our study aimed to evaluate the perception of health-related messages and warnings on individual cigarette sticks. It also aimed to evaluate the perceptions of the effectiveness of cigarette packaging warnings and the acceptance level for the inclusion of health warnings on cigarette sticks. METHODS This cross-sectional survey was conducted on 285 individuals in Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia. The survey was distributed online using a non-probability convenience sampling technique. The chi-squared test and logistic regression analysis were used to determine the association of sociodemographic characteristics and smoking-related variables with participants’ perceptions of health warnings on cigarette sticks and packaging. The responses were also assessed qualitatively using conceptual content analysis. RESULTS In all, 18.6% of participants perceived that the package warnings were either ‘quite effective’ or ‘very effective’ in prompting smokers to quit. For health warnings on cigarette sticks, 28.1% of participants perceived that the theme of statistics on mortality was either ‘quite effective’ or ‘very effective’ in prompting smokers to quit, compared to 35.0 % for the theme of social and financial consequences. Respondents who had secondary education and lower were almost two times more likely to support the inclusion of health warnings than those who had a university education and higher (OR=1.9; 95% CI: 1.02–3.7, p=0.042). Most of the comments were positive for the inclusion of health warnings on cigarette sticks. CONCLUSIONS Most participants perceived that package warnings were ineffective, but warnings on cigarette sticks were effective methods of dissuasion of cigarette use. Smokers were almost twice as likely to perceive as effective supportive messages to quit than non-smokers. The majority of participants ‘agreed’ or ‘strongly agreed’ to the inclusion of health warnings on cigarette sticks.

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