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Understanding How Graphic Pictorial Warnings Work On Cigarette Packaging, Jeremy Kees, Scot Burton, J. Craig Andrews, John Kozup
Understanding How Graphic Pictorial Warnings Work On Cigarette Packaging, Jeremy Kees, Scot Burton, J. Craig Andrews, John Kozup
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The 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act requires cigarette packages to contain stronger warnings in the form of color, graphic pictures depicting the negative health consequences of smoking. The authors present results from a between-subjects experiment with more than 500 smokers that test (1) the effectiveness of pictorial warnings that vary in their graphic depiction of the warning and (2) an underlying mechanism proposed to drive potential effects of the manipulation of the graphic depiction. The findings indicate that more graphic pictorial warning depictions strengthen smokers’ intentions to quit smoking. Recall of warning message statements is reduced by …