Advancing the evidentiary base for tobacco warning labels: A commentary

Graphic tobacco warning labels – an improper solution?

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Cartoon characters as tobacco warning labels.

BACKGROUND Multiple studies have indicated that the Joe Camel advertising campaign has been successful in marketing tobacco to children and adolescents, whereas other studies have reported that current tobacco warning messages are ineffective. OBJECTIVE To determine the importance and believability of familiar and novel tobacco warning messages with and without cartoons that were modeled afte...

The federal government's senseless policy change on tobacco warning labels.

The Age-related Positivity Effect and Tobacco Warning Labels.

OBJECTIVES This study tested whether age is a factor in viewing time for tobacco warning labels. The approach drew from previous work demonstrating an age-related positivity effect, whereby older adults show preferences toward positive and away from negative stimuli. METHODS Participants were 295 daily smokers from Appalachian Ohio (age range: 21-68). All participants took part in an eye-trac...

Editorial commentary: climbing the evidentiary hierarchy for environmental infection control.

Increasing concern over multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), especially vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), Clostridium difficile, and multidrugresistant gram-negative bacteria (MDRGNB), has led to increasing attention being paid to the role of high-touch environmental surfaces in transmission. Our current understanding of the roles of environmental surfaces in MDRO transmission include t...