Maurice C. Hall|KM Ribisl|Noel T. Brewer
Smokers' and Nonsmokers' Beliefs About Harmful Tobacco Constituents: Implications for FDA Communication Efforts
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
legislation requires us food drug administration fda release information public harmful constituents tobacco tobacco smoke inform efforts sought better understand smokers nonsmokers think tobacco constituentsin october 2012 300 us adults aged 1866 years completed crosssectional internet survey questions focused 20 harmful tobacco constituents fda prioritized communicating publicmost participants heard 7 tobacco constituents ammonia arsenic benzene cadmium carbon monoxide formaldehyde nicotine participants heard others eg acrolein participants correctly understood many constituents naturally present tobacco substances companies add cigarette tobacco discouraged people wanting smoke substances naturally occur cigarette smoke p 001 ammonia arsenic carbon monoxide formaldehyde cigarettes elicited discouragement smoking constituents elicited greater discouragement wanting smoke respondents nonsmokers 34 p 05 negative images smokers ie negative smoker prototypes 19 p 05 believed constituents added tobacco 14 p 05 older 16 p 05our study found low awareness tobacco constituents greater concern elicited additives efforts communicate health risks tobacco constituents consider focusing ones elicited discouragement smoking