59 results match your criteria: "Center for Health Policy Science and Tobacco[Affiliation]"

Medicaid coverage for tobacco dependence treatment: Enrollee awareness and use.

Prev Med Rep

December 2021

New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Tobacco Control, Albany, NY, United States.

Medicaid-insured adults smoke at twice the rate of privately insured adults. Insurance coverage for tobacco dependence treatments (TDTs) has been shown to increase quit attempts, but few published studies have measured enrollees' awareness of Medicaid coverage. We assessed awareness of Medicaid coverage for and use of TDTs among New York State (NYS) Medicaid-insured smokers and recent quitters.

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A mixed-methods study to inform the clarity and accuracy of cannabis-use and cannabis-tobacco co-use survey measures.

Drug Alcohol Depend

July 2021

Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education and Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 530 Parnassus Ave. Ste 366, San Francisco, CA, 94143, United States. Electronic address:

Background: Legalization of medical and recreational cannabis in US states has been accompanied by increases in availability, acceptability, and diversity in methods of cannabis use, as well as an increase in devices and methods for cannabis-tobacco co-use. Updated and specific survey measures of cannabis and cannabis-tobacco co-use are needed.

Methods: We employed a mixed-methods approach to identify sources of specification and measurement error in cannabis and cannabis-tobacco co-use measures.

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Cost Effectiveness of the Tips From Former Smokers® Campaign-U.S., 2012-2018.

Am J Prev Med

March 2021

Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.

Introduction: Since 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has conducted the national Tips From Former Smokers® public education campaign, which motivates smokers to quit by featuring people living with the real-life health consequences of smoking. Cost effectiveness, from the healthcare sector perspective, of the Tips From Former Smokers® campaign was compared over 2012-2018 with that of no campaign.

Methods: A combination of survey data from a nationally representative sample of U.

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In 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the national Tips From Former Smokers (Tips) campaign to encourage people who smoke to quit by showing real-life heath consequences of tobacco use and promoting evidence-based resources for quitting. To assess the campaign's impact on quit attempts and sustained-quit estimates (ie, quits lasting ≥6 mos), CDC analyzed data from a nationally representative longitudinal survey of US adults who smoke cigarettes, aged 18 years or older in 2012-2018. The Tips campaign was associated with an estimated 16.

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Introduction: In 2003, the Philippines implemented legislation that prohibited the sale of tobacco products to youth, placed text warning labels on tobacco products, and prohibited tobacco smoking in public places. This study assessed if this legislation was associated with reduced cigarette smoking among youth.

Methods: Data came from the 2000-2015 Philippines Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS), a nationally representative, cross-sectional survey of students aged 13-15 years.

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Introduction: Pursuant to the Tobacco Control Act (TCA), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is developing new cigarette health warnings to convey the negative health consequences of cigarette smoking.

Aims And Methods: This study assessed which of 15 revised warning statements (10 on topics similar to TCA statements and 5 on other topics) promoted greater understanding of cigarette smoking risks relative to TCA statements. In February 2018, adolescent and adult smokers and adolescents susceptible to smoking (n = 2505) completed an online experiment.

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Introduction: Since December 2010, Florida's Bureau of Tobacco Free Florida has aired a statewide tobacco education campaign to encourage smoking cessation. The Tobacco Free Florida campaign consists of evidence-based advertisements primarily characterized by strong emotional content and graphic imagery designed to increase awareness of the health risks of tobacco use. We evaluated the effect of the media campaign on population-level quit attempts by using a statewide representative sample of Florida adults aged 18 or older.

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LGBT young adults' awareness of and receptivity to the tobacco public education campaign.

Tob Control

January 2021

Center for Tobacco Products, Office of Health Communication and Education, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.

Purpose: This study measures awareness of and receptivity to the Food and Drug Administration's campaign seeking to change tobacco-related attitudes and beliefs among lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender (LGBT) young adults.

Methods: Participants were young adults who self-identify as LGBT. The evaluation uses a treatment-control design.

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Introduction: On 1 January 2016, Hawaii raised the minimum legal age for tobacco access from 18 to 21 years ('Tobacco 21 (T21)') statewide, with no special population exemptions. We assessed the impact of Hawaii's T21 policy on sales of cigarettes and large cigars/cigarillos in civilian food stores, including menthol/flavoured product sales share.

Methods: Cigarette and large cigar/cigarillo sales and menthol/flavoured sales share were assessed in Hawaii, California (implemented T21 in June 2016 with a military exemption), and the US mainland using the only Nielsen data consistently available for each geographical area.

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Differential Relationship between Tobacco Control Policies and U.S. Adult Current Smoking by Poverty.

Int J Environ Res Public Health

October 2019

Schroeder Institute, Truth Initiative, 900 G Street Northwest, Fourth Floor, Washington, DC 20001, USA.

The study's purpose was to identify differences in the relationship between tobacco control policies and smoking by poverty. We matched state smoke-free air law coverage (SFALs), tobacco control funding (TCF), and cigarette taxes with individual current smoking and demographics from supplements to the Current Population Survey (1985-2015). We regressed (logistic) smoking on policy variables, poverty (<138% of poverty line versus ≥138% of poverty line), interactions of policy and poverty, and covariates, presenting beta coefficients instead of odds ratios because it is difficult to interpret interactions using odds ratios (they are ratios of odds ratios).

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Purpose: The aim of the study was to assess awareness of and receptivity to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Fresh Empire tobacco public education campaign designed to reach Hip Hop-identified youth, who are at higher smoking risk.

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Background: Point of sale (POS) advertising is associated with smoking initiation, current smoking, and relapse among former smokers. Price promotion bans and antismoking advertisements (ads) are 2 possible interventions for combating POS advertising.

Objective: The purpose of this analysis was to determine the influence of antismoking ads and promotions on urges to smoke and tobacco purchases.

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The Tips From Former Smokers campaign (Tips) has demonstrated significant impact as a population-based intervention for smoking cessation in the United States. Since 2012, evaluations of Tips have relied on web-panel data to attribute the campaign to smoking cessation outcomes. We re-examined the relationship between market-level doses of the campaign and quit attempts by using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data to triangulate prior findings.

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Background: Limited data exist on whether there is differential pricing of flavoured and non-flavoured varieties of the same product type. We assessed price of tobacco products by flavour type.

Methods: Retail scanner data from Nielsen were obtained for October 2011 to January 2016.

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Introduction: On 3 January, 2013, the city of Providence, Rhode Island, began enforcing a restriction on the retail sale of all non-cigarette tobacco products with a characterising flavour other than tobacco, menthol, mint or wintergreen. We assessed the policy impact on cigar sales-which comprise 95% of flavoured non-cigarette tobacco products sold through conventional tobacco retail outlets (eg, convenience stores, supermarkets) in Providence-over time and in comparison to the rest of the state (ROS).

Methods: Weekly retail scanner sales data were obtained for January 2012 to December 2016.

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Objective: To test how a potential US ban of menthol products or replacement with 'green' products and ads could influence tobacco purchases.

Methods: US adult menthol smokers (N=1197) were recruited via an online panel and randomly assigned to complete a shopping task in one of four versions (experimental conditions) of the RTI iShoppe virtual store: (1) no ban, (2) replacement of menthol cigarettes and ads with green replacement versions, (3) menthol cigarette ban and (4) all menthol tobacco product ban. Logistic regressions assessed the effect of condition on tobacco purchases.

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals are at increased risk for tobacco use compared to those who are not LGBT. The Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products launched the first U.S.

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This social media analysis used a prediction model to estimate the ages of followers of @JUULvapor on Twitter.

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Background: The number of adolescents and adults using e-cigarettes, referred to as vaping, has dramatically increased. E-cigarettes can be used to perform vape tricks by inhaling and exhaling the e-cigarette aerosol in patterns to create visual effects or large clouds. To create these effects, the puffing patterns associated with vape tricks may be different than standard ad-lib e-cigarette usage.

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Introduction: It is unclear whether warnings on electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) advertisements required by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will apply to social media. Given the key role of social media in marketing e-cigarettes, we seek to inform FDA decision making by exploring how warnings on various tweet content influence perceived healthiness, nicotine harm, likelihood to try e-cigarettes, and warning recall.

Methods: In this 2 × 4 between-subjects experiment participants viewed a tweet from a fictitious e-cigarette brand.

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In this study, we examined visual attention of a warning label on a sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) and its effects on visual attention to SSB product descriptors and perceptions of SSB using eye tracking technology. We had 180 young adults view an image of a generic soda can with or without a text warning on a computer monitor. Participants spent less time looking at marketing elements on the can in the "Warning" condition compared to the "No warning" (control) condition.

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Introduction: People living with mental health conditions (MH+) are more likely to smoke cigarettes than people without mental health conditions (MH-) and to experience tobacco-related disparities. The Tips From Former Smokers® (Tips®) campaign is a proven population-level strategy for motivating smokers to quit. In 2016, Tips included ads featuring Rebecca, a former smoker with depression.

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Revolution or redux? Assessing IQOS through a precursor product.

Tob Control

November 2018

Center for Tobacco Control Research and Educaion, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.

Background: Philip Morris International (PMI) currently claims that its heated tobacco product, IQOS, reduces health risk by reducing users' exposure to harmful and potentially harmful constituents present in tobacco smoke. Given the tobacco industry's long history of misrepresenting and obfuscating research, independent assessment of PMI's claims is important. Analysis of Accord, a failed but strikingly similar precursor to IQOS, may help contextualise PMI's claims in its Modified Risk Tobacco Product (MRTP) application.

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Barriers to Mental Health Treatment Utilization in Wards 7 and 8 in Washington, DC: A Qualitative Pilot Study.

Health Equity

August 2018

Department of Prevention and Community Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia.

There is a paucity of data on barriers to mental health treatment utilization among residents of Wards 7 and 8 in Washington, DC, despite exposure to many environmental factors that are associated with poor mental health outcomes and the high prevalence of mental health problems among residents. The objective of this study was to examine barriers to mental healthcare utilization among residents of Wards 7 and 8. This study included semi-structured, in-depth interviews with five key informants who lived or spent significant time in Wards 7 or 8 in Washington, DC, which are the wards served by Paving the Way MSI, a behavioral health clinic that served as a partner organization in the study.

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