BACKGROUND Tobacco is a leading cause of death globally. There are limited reports on current cigarette smoking prevalence and its associated-antismoking messages among adolescents in conflict zones of the world. We, therefore, conducted secondary analysis of data to estimate the prevalence of current cigarette smoking, and to determine associations of antismoking messages with smoking status. ...

AIMS To examine the association between parental rules and communication (also referred to as antismoking socialization) and adolescents' smoking. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS A cross-sectional study including 428 Dutch two-parent families with at least two adolescent children (aged 13-17 years). MEASUREMENTS Parents' and adolescents' reports on an agreement regarding smoking by adolescents, smo...

Antismoking mass media campaigns can help reduce the prevalence of smoking by discouraging young persons from initiating smoking and by encouraging current smokers to quit. Smoking cessation is a multistage process; intention to quit smoking precedes quit attempts. To assess whether awareness of anti-cigarette smoking information in four mass media channels (television, radio, billboards, and n...

Research on the impact of antismoking advertisements in countermarketing cigarette advertising is equivocal. Although many studies examined how different message appeal types influence people's attitudes and behavior, there have been few studies that have explored the mechanism of how individuals attend to and remember antismoking information. This study examined how message attributes of antis...

This study developed inoculation-driven antismoking interventions aimed at changing attitudes, norms and intentions about smoking to influence smoking behavior in adolescents. This study explored the efficacy of 2 intervention approaches designed to help adolescents to refrain from smoking initiation. Participants were junior high students (6th, 7th, and 8th grade) from schools in the Northeast...

The prevalence of adolescent smoking has been increasing rapidly in China. Expanding adolescent exposure to antismoking messages may be an effective approach to prevent tobacco use among this population. Using a cross-sectional sample of 8,444 high school students in four Chinese cities, this study assessed the relation between self-reported exposure to antismoking messages from families, schoo...

need a doctor’s note to light up. Member of Parliament and former health minister Siv Fridleifsdottir, backed by the country’s medical association, will table a private member’s bill in the fall to make cigarettes a prescription-only product. Only pharmacies would be allowed to dispense tobacco products — at first to anyone over 20 and finally only to people with medical certificates. The pitch...

paid mass-media advertising to communicate with the U.S. public. The U.S. Congress has allocated $1.2 billion—$200 million per year for 5 years—to fund an advertising campaign to keep youths from using illicit drugs (Fairclough, 1999). The U.S. Census Bureau has, for the first time, used advertising to increase mail-in response rates to the dicennial census; its advertising budget was roughly $...

Background: Smoke-free eating places are effective in reducing exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS). Eateries should comply with implementing smoke-free eating-places under the Control of Tobacco Products Regulations 2018 all open-air reduce tobacco consumption achieve plan having Malaysia free by 2045. Objectives: To determine impact perceived knowledge on control law and SHS attitude support pr...