U.S. adult perceptions of the harmfulness of tobacco products: descriptive findings from the 2013–14 baseline wave 1 of the path study
| Autor: | Maansi Bansal-Travers, Charles Carusi, Annette R. Kaufman, Geoffrey T. Fong, K. Michael Cummings, Andrew Hyland, Jonathan Kwan, Kelvin Choi, Tara Elton-Marshall, Pete Driezen, Mary E. Thompson, Amber Koblitz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Adult
Male Risk Tobacco Smokeless Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Population 030508 substance abuse Medicine (miscellaneous) Water Pipe Smoking Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Tobacco Waterpipe Toxicology Article Cigarette Smoking law.invention Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine law Perception Environmental health Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine education Aged media_common education.field_of_study business.industry Vaping Tobacco Products Middle Aged United States Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Significant positive correlation Female 0305 other medical science business Attitude to Health Electronic cigarette Tobacco product |
| Zdroj: | Addict Behav |
| ISSN: | 0306-4603 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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