Impact of Vaping Prevention Advertisements on US Adolescents: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Understanding whether prevention advertisements reduce susceptibility to vaping is important owing to concerning levels of adolescent vaping.

Objective

To examine whether vaping prevention advertisements from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) national Real Cost campaign lead to lower susceptibility to vaping among adolescents.

Design, setting, and participants

For this 3-group randomized clinical trial with parallel assignment, participants were US adolescents aged 13 to 17 years who were susceptible to vaping or current e-cigarette users, recruited from online panels. Adolescents were randomized to 1 of 2 Real Cost vaping prevention trial groups (health harms- or addiction-themed advertisements) or to a control group (investigator-created neutral v

SUBMITTER: Noar SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9561946 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature