Understanding How Cigarette Direct Mail Marketing Influences Smoking Behaviors Among High and Low Socioeconomic Status Young Adult Smokers
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Conditions studied: Nicotine Dependence
In brief
Background: Smoking is a major public health problem in the U.S. Almost a half a million Americans die from it in a year. One thing that contributes to why people smoke is the marketing of cigarettes. Cigarette direct mail marketing usually targets young smokers of lower socioeconomic status. Researchers want to find out more about how this kind of marketing influences smoking behavior in young people from different socioeconomic levels. Objectives: To study the effects of cigarette direct mail marketing on beliefs, responses, and arousal. To study how these things may differ among young adult smokers of high and low socioeconomic status. Eligibility: Volunteer adults ages 18 to 29 who smoke. Design: Participants will have 1 visit. Participants will be asked questions about their health and recent smoking. A nurse will check their vital signs. Participants will have a simple eye exam. They will give blood and urine samples. Participants will be connected to equipment. This will collect data while they look at pictures. Then they will have a 10-minute break. A nurse will observe them during the break. Participants will have their breath analyzed. Participants will answer questions. The topics will include: Education Job Income Family history Tobacco use Exposure to pro-smoking and anti-smoking messages History of drug and alcohol use
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02974582
- Run by
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
- People needed
- 0
- Starts
- 2026-03-17
- Expected to finish
- 2026-03-17
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-03-18
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 29. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may not qualify if…
- Inability, in the judgment of the investigator, to understand and follow the requirements of the protocol.
- Currently enrolled in high school.
- Participants with eye conditions that restrict their ability to track an object with their eyes.
- Participants with myopia, hyperopia, and/or astigmatism who cannot pass a simple vision test even with corrective lenses.
- Participants with medical condition(s) that may be triggered by infrared radiation (e.g., epilepsy).
- Self-reported use of alcohol, recreational drugs or prescription medications used for recreational purposes (e.g., amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, MDMA, ketamines, LSD, opiates and opioids, tranquilizers or opioid analgesics) that may influence their judgement at the time of study in the past 12 hours before the study visit.
- Participants who cannot see an object located between 15 to 27 inches away from them (the required distance between the computer screen and the participants for accurate eye-tracking), even with corrective contact lenses.
Where it is running
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center — Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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