Pictorial Warning Labels and Memory for Cigarette Health-risk Information Over Time.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pictorial cigarette warning labels are thought to increase risk knowledge, but experimental research has not examined longer-term effects on memory for health risks named in text.

Purpose

To investigate memory-consolidation predictions that high- versus low-emotion warnings would support better long-term memory for named cigarette health risks and to test a mediational model of warning-label effects through memory on risk perceptions and quit intentions.

Methods

A combined sample of U.S.-representative adult smokers, U.S.-representative teen smokers/vulnerable smokers, and Appalachian-representative adult smokers were randomly assigned to a warning-label condition (High-emotion pictorial, Low-emotion pictorial, Text-only) in which they were exposed four tim

SUBMITTER: Peters E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6289901 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature