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Youth Responses to Anti-Smoking Advertisements From Tobacco-Control Agencies, Tobacco Companies, and Pharmaceutical Companies1
Melanie Wakefield 1 2 George I. Balch 2 Erin Ruel 3 Yvonne Terry-McElrath 3 Glen Szczypka 3 Brian Flay 3 Sherry Emery 3 Katherine Clegg-Smith 3
  1 The Cancer Council Victoria, Australia   2 Balch Associates Chicago, Illinois   3 University of Illinois at Chicago
  2 Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Melanie Wakefield, Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Control Research Institute, The Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia. E-mail: melanie.wakefield@cancervic.org.au
 

1 This study was funded by the State and Community Tobacco Control Initiative of the "National Cancer Institute, Grant #1 RO 1 CA86273-01. The authors thank Lois Biener, Phillip Klafta, David Hill, William Wells, and Kim Worden, who provided helpful advice in the development of the method for this study; and Kim McLeod for manuscript preparation.

Copyright 2005 V. H. Winston & Sons, Inc.

ABSTRACT

Emotional reactions to anti-smoking advertising (e.g., fear, sadness, anger) may play an important role in promoting smoking-related attitudinal and behavioral change. Overall, 278 youth completed response ratings of 16 different elements of 50 anti-smoking ads made by tobacco-control agencies, tobacco companies, and pharmaceutical companies. Compared with tobacco-control ads, tobacco-company ads were more likely to elicit positive emotions and less likely to elicit negative emotions and to be of interest to youth. Compared with tobacco-control ads, pharmaceutical company ads were less likely to elicit negative emotional responses or cognitively engage youth and more likely to elicit positive emotions. These findings suggest that youth may be unlikely to respond to tobacco-company advertising in ways that may lead to a lower likelihood of smoking.


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10.1111/j.1559-1816.2005.tb02201.x About DOI

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