Over-Time Impacts of Pictorial Health Warning Labels and their Differences across Smoker Subgroups: Results from Adult Smokers in Canada and Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This study examines patterns of change in different smoker subgroups' responses to new pictorial health warning labels (HWLs) over the initial, two year post-implementation period in Canada, where HWLs include package inserts with cessation messages, and Australia, where "plain" packaging (i.e., prohibition of brand imagery) was also implemented.

Methods

Data were collected from online consumer panels in Canada (nsmokers = 3153; nobservations = 5826) and Australia (nsmokers = 2699; nobservations = 5818) from September 2012 to September 2014, with approximately 1000 adult smokers surveyed in each country every four months, using replenishment to maintain sample size. Data were analyzed using generalized estimating equation models where main effects and interactio

SUBMITTER: Swayampakala K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5991213 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature