U.S. adult perceptions of the harmfulness of tobacco products: descriptive findings from the 2013-14 baseline wave 1 of the path study.

Autor: Fong GT; Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada., Elton-Marshall T; Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, London, ON, Canada; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada; School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: Tara.EltonMarshall@camh.ca., Driezen P; Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada., Kaufman AR; US Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA., Cummings KM; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA., Choi K; Division of Intramural Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, MD, USA., Kwan J; Center for Tobacco Products, United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA., Koblitz A; Center for Tobacco Products, United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA., Hyland A; Department of Health Behavior, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA., Bansal-Travers M; Department of Health Behavior, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA., Carusi C; Westat, Rockville, MD, USA., Thompson ME; Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Addictive behaviors [Addict Behav] 2019 Apr; Vol. 91, pp. 180-187. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Nov 17.
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.11.023
Abstrakt: Introduction: This study is the first nationally representative survey of U.S. adults (18+) to examine perceptions of the relative harms of eight non-cigarette tobacco products.
Methods: Data are from Wave 1 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study Adult Questionnaire, a nationally representative study of 32,320 adults in the United States conducted from September 2013 to December 2014.
Results: 40.7% of adults believed that electronic cigarettes were less harmful than cigarettes, and 17.8% of adults believed that hookah was less harmful than cigarettes. Those less knowledgeable about the health risks of smoking were more likely to believe that the non-cigarette products were less harmful than cigarettes. Current non-cigarette tobacco product users were more likely to perceive that product to be less harmful than cigarettes (except filtered cigars). There was a significant positive correlation between beliefs that cigarettes were harmful and the likelihood of using hookah; perceptions of the harmfulness of cigarettes was not associated with the likelihood of using any other product.
Conclusions: Perceptions of harmfulness varied widely across non-cigarette tobacco products. E-cigarettes and hookah in particular are seen as less harmful compared to cigarettes.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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