FDA cigarette warning labels lower craving and elicit frontoinsular activation in adolescent smokers.

ABSTRACT: Cigarette smoking is an economically and epidemiologically expensive public health concern. Most adult smokers become addicted during adolescence, rendering it a crucial period for prevention and intervention. Although litigation claims have delayed implementation, graphic warning labels proposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be a promising way to achieve this goal. We aimed to determine the efficacy of the labels in reducing in-scanner craving and to characterize the neurobiological responses in adolescent and adult smokers and non-smokers. While undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging, thirty-nine 13- to 18-year-old adolescent and forty-one 25- to 30-year-old adult smokers and non-smokers rated their desire to smoke when presented with emotionally graphic wa

SUBMITTER: Do KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4631145 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature