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E-cigarette adverts and children’s perceptions of tobacco smoking harms: an experimental study and meta-analysis

Overview of attention for article published in BMJ Open, July 2018
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Title
E-cigarette adverts and children’s perceptions of tobacco smoking harms: an experimental study and meta-analysis
Published in
BMJ Open, July 2018
DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020247
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Milica Vasiljevic, Amelia St John Wallis, Saphsa Codling, Dominique-Laurent Couturier, Stephen Sutton, Theresa M Marteau

Abstract

Children exposed to electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) adverts may perceive occasional tobacco smoking as less harmful than children not exposed to e-cigarette adverts. Given the potential cross-cueing effects of e-cigarette adverts on tobacco smoking, there is an urgent need to establish whether the effect found in prior research is robust and replicable using a larger sample and a stronger control condition. A between-subjects experiment with one independent factor of two levels corresponding to the advertisements to which participants were exposed: glamorous adverts for e-cigarettes, or adverts for objects unrelated to smoking or vaping. English school children aged 11-16 (n=1449). Perceived harm of occasional smoking of one or two tobacco cigarettes was the primary outcome. Secondary outcomes included: perceived harm of regular tobacco smoking, susceptibility to tobacco smoking and perceived prevalence of tobacco smoking in young people. Perceptions of using e-cigarettes were gauged by adapting all the outcome measures used to assess perceptions of tobacco smoking. Tobacco smokers and e-cigarette users were excluded from analyses (final sample n=1057). Children exposed to glamorous e-cigarette adverts perceived the harms of occasional smoking of one or two tobacco cigarettes to be lower than those in the control group (Z=-2.13, p=0.033). An updated meta-analysis comprising three studies with 1935 children confirmed that exposure to different types of e-cigarette adverts (glamorous, healthful, flavoured, non-flavoured) lowers the perceived harm of occasional smoking of one or two tobacco cigarettes (Z=3.21, p=0.001). This study adds to existing evidence that exposure to e-cigarette adverts reduces children's perceptions of the harm of occasional tobacco smoking.

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Unknown 79 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 16%
Student > Master 13 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 10%
Student > Postgraduate 3 4%
Other 9 11%
Unknown 24 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 13%
Psychology 8 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 9%
Social Sciences 6 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 6%
Other 16 20%
Unknown 27 34%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 39. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 May 2020.
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#1,055,348
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Outputs from BMJ Open
#1,860
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#22,423
of 339,622 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMJ Open
#50
of 587 outputs
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