Reduced nicotine content cigarette advertising: How false beliefs and subjective ratings affect smoking behavior

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 173, Issue , 2017, Pages 99-106

  Mercincavage, Melissa ^a   Saddleson, Megan L ^a   Gup, Emily ^a   Halstead, Angela ^a   Mays, Darren ^b   Strasser, Andrew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

False beliefs; Low nicotine; Reduced nicotine content; Smoking behaviors; Subjective ratings; Tobacco product advertising

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE; NICOTINE;

ADULT; ADVERTISING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OPEN STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REDUCED NICOTINE CONTENT CIGARETTE ADVERTISING; SMOKING; SMOKING HABIT; SUBSTANCE USE; ANALYSIS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECEPTION; DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER ADVERTIZING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; TOBACCO; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CULTURE; DECEPTION; DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER ADVERTISING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICOTINE; SMOKING; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85013197164     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: 18790046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.12.022     Document Type: Article

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