Assessing Constituent Levels in Smokeless Tobacco Products: A New Approach to Engaging and Educating the Public.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Providing accurate information about the constituents in nicotine-containing products may help tobacco users make informed decisions about product choices. An experimental study examined a novel approach for presenting accurate constituent information about brands and types of smokeless tobacco (SLT) that could be understood by the general public.

Methods

Participants were recruited through Amazon's Mechanical Turk and presented information online about 2 constituent dimensions of SLT products-nicotine and/or toxicity (for simplicity, "toxicity" in this study refers to carcinogenic constituents) Participants completed measures of knowledge and tobacco health risks at 2 time points: before and after exposure to constituent information.

Results

Participants

SUBMITTER: Borgida E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4612344 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature