Standardised (plain) cigarette packaging increases attention to both text-based and graphical health warnings: Experimental evidence

Public Health

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 37-42

  Shankleman, M ^a,b   Sykes, C ^a   Mandeville, K L ^c   Di Costa, S ^d   Yarrow, K ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Cigarettes; Eye tracking; Health warnings; Standardised packaging; UK

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLACK AND WHITE TEXT WARNING LABEL; COLOR IMAGE AND TEXT WARNING LABEL; COLOR TEXT WARNING LABEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FEMALE; GAZE; GAZE POSITION; GRAPHICAL HEALTH WARNING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATERIALS HANDLING; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACKAGING; POST HOC ANALYSIS; SMOKING; STANDARDIZED CIGARETTE PACKAGING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEXT BASED HEALTH WARNING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT; AUSTRALIA; EYE MOVEMENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME; TOBACCO;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUSTRALIA; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; PRODUCT LABELING; PRODUCT PACKAGING; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921362566     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: 14765616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2014.10.019     Document Type: Article

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