Communicating Smoking Risks Through Graphic Warning Labels

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Lung Cancer, Heart Disease

In brief

Smoking is the largest preventable health risk in the U.S. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2010 mandated the placement of larger pictorial warnings on cigarette packs as well as nine new statements of smoking risks. This trial tests the effectiveness of the warnings proposed by the Food and Drug Administration by providing cigarettes with the proposed labels to 320 smokers across two sites (Philadelphia, PA and Columbus, OH). In addition, the trial tests the effects of different warning label components.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01782053

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

245

Starts

2013-01-01

Expected to finish

2014-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-12-02

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• smoke between 5 and 40 cigarettes per day and 100 in lifetime
• Not currently trying to quit
• between 18 and 65 years of age

You may not qualify if…

• smokes 120's or roll-your own or noncommercial cigarettes
• pregnant or breastfeeding
• history of substance abuse past 5 years
• more than 25 standard alcohol drinks per week
• use of other nicotine products, such as cigars, nicotine gum
• current treatment for copd, cancer, pulmonary disease, alcohol/drug dependence
• current treatment for a psychiatric condition
• physical/visual/mental impairment that prevents reading from a computer screen
• not US resident
• unable to read English
• English not main language
• other member of household in study
• friend who smokes in study
• unable to attend weekly appointments between 9 am and 6 pm Monday-Friday
• unable to use hand-held computer to enter daily mood ratings

Where it is running

• Lazenby Hall, Ohio State University — Columbus, Ohio, United States
• Annenberg Public Policy Center — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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