Association of health warning labels and motivation to quit waterpipe tobacco smoking among university students in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This study aimed to determine associations between health warning label content and motivation to quit waterpipe smoking by gender and smoking location.

Methods

Convenience samples of university students in three Eastern Mediterranean countries - Egypt (n=442), Jordan (n=535) and Palestine (n=487) - completed an online survey assessing health warning labels. Multinomial logit regression models were conducted to determine the association between different variables, particularly gender and smoking location, with motivation to quit.

Results

In Palestine, female smokers were more motivated to quit waterpipe smoking when seeing textual warning labels related to children (T2) and pregnancy (T6) [T2: 1.8 (95% CI: 1.1-2.8), T6: 2.7 (95% CI: 1.6-4.3)] compared to

SUBMITTER: Farran D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8176861 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature