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How Do Antitobacco Campaign Advertising And Smoking Status Affect Beliefs And Intentions? Some Similarities And Differences Between Adults And Adolescents, Andrea Heintz Tangari, Scot Burton, J. Craig Andrews, Richard G. Netemeyer
How Do Antitobacco Campaign Advertising And Smoking Status Affect Beliefs And Intentions? Some Similarities And Differences Between Adults And Adolescents, Andrea Heintz Tangari, Scot Burton, J. Craig Andrews, Richard G. Netemeyer
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This article presents two studies that examine similarities and differences with respect to how adults and adolescents process and respond to information in an antitobacco ad campaign. Study 1 examines (1) the effects of antitobacco advertising campaign measures (e.g., campaign advertisement integration, perceived strength of ad-based messages, attitude toward the ad campaign) on four key adult antismoking beliefs and (2) the influence of these campaign evaluations and beliefs on smokers’ intentions to quit smoking. Hierarchical regression results show that antismoking ad campaign reactions explain substantial additional variance in beliefs about tobacco industry deceptiveness, smoking addictiveness, harmfulness of secondhand smoke, and …