How does removing menthol tobacco product displays at point-of-sale affect adolescents’ cigarette smoking intentions? The mediating effects of social norms DOI Creative Commons
Jody Chin Sing Wong, Claude Messan Setodji, Michael S. Dunbar

и другие.

Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Фев. 20, 2025

This study investigates the psychological mechanisms through which a removal of mentholated tobacco products from retail stores affects future smoking intentions among youth. Descriptive norms and injunctive were examined as candidate mediators. The was conducted in RAND StoreLab (RSL), life-sized replica convenience store developed to evaluate how changing point-of-sale (POS) advertising influences use outcomes during simulated shopping experiences. Participants assigned shop randomly RSL under one three experimental conditions that (1) status quo condition all tobacco-, sweet-, menthol-flavors displayed; (2) tobacco/menthol only tobacco- menthol-flavored displayed (sweet characterizing flavors other than or menthol/mint removed display, effectively "banned"); (3) tobacco-only tobacco-flavored (all sweet- removed). Results revealed mediated relationship between menthol cigarettes POS setting increased smoke cigarettes, whereas descriptive not significant mediator. These findings suggest targeting public health communications may be promising strategy mitigate potential unintended consequences ban on for

Язык: Английский

How does removing menthol tobacco product displays at point-of-sale affect adolescents’ cigarette smoking intentions? The mediating effects of social norms DOI Creative Commons
Jody Chin Sing Wong, Claude Messan Setodji, Michael S. Dunbar

и другие.

Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Фев. 20, 2025

This study investigates the psychological mechanisms through which a removal of mentholated tobacco products from retail stores affects future smoking intentions among youth. Descriptive norms and injunctive were examined as candidate mediators. The was conducted in RAND StoreLab (RSL), life-sized replica convenience store developed to evaluate how changing point-of-sale (POS) advertising influences use outcomes during simulated shopping experiences. Participants assigned shop randomly RSL under one three experimental conditions that (1) status quo condition all tobacco-, sweet-, menthol-flavors displayed; (2) tobacco/menthol only tobacco- menthol-flavored displayed (sweet characterizing flavors other than or menthol/mint removed display, effectively "banned"); (3) tobacco-only tobacco-flavored (all sweet- removed). Results revealed mediated relationship between menthol cigarettes POS setting increased smoke cigarettes, whereas descriptive not significant mediator. These findings suggest targeting public health communications may be promising strategy mitigate potential unintended consequences ban on for

Язык: Английский

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