Effectiveness of text versus pictorial health warning labels and predictors of support for plain packaging of tobacco products within the european union

European Addiction Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 47-52

  Agaku, Israel T ^a   Filippidis, Filippos T ^a,b   Vardavas, Constantine I ^a,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cigarette; Graphic labels; Packaging; Pictorial labels; Policy; Smoking; Tobacco; Warning labels

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LATVIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALTA; PACKAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SPAIN; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED KINGDOM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO USE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRODUCT LABELING; PRODUCT PACKAGING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; TOBACCO USE; TOBACCO USE CESSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84927913086     PISSN: 10226877     EISSN: 14219891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000366019     Document Type: Article

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