Borzekowski Dina L G, Cohen Joanna E
Z Gesundh Wiss. 2014;22(2):175-185. doi: 10.1007/s10389-014-0612-0. Epub 2014 Feb 26.
Health warning labels on cigarette packages are one way to reach youth thinking about initiating tobacco use. The purpose of this study was to examine awareness and understanding of current health warning labels among 5 and 6 year old children.
Researchers conducted one-on-one interviews with urban and rural 5 and 6 year olds from Brazil, China, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Russia.
Among the 2,423 participating children, 62 % were unaware of the health warnings currently featured on cigarette packages, with the lowest levels of awareness in India and the highest levels in Brazil. When shown the messages, the same percentage of participating children (62 %) showed no level of message understanding.
While youth are receiving social and informational messages promoting tobacco use, health warning labels featured on cigarette packages are not effectively reaching young children with anti-smoking messages.
香烟包装上的健康警示标签是接触到正在考虑开始使用烟草的青少年的一种方式。本研究的目的是调查5岁和6岁儿童对当前健康警示标签的知晓度和理解情况。
研究人员对来自巴西、中国、印度、尼日利亚、巴基斯坦和俄罗斯的城乡5岁和6岁儿童进行了一对一访谈。
在2423名参与研究的儿童中,62%的儿童不知道香烟包装上目前的健康警示,印度的知晓度最低,巴西的知晓度最高。当向他们展示这些信息时,相同比例(62%)的参与儿童对信息没有任何理解。
虽然青少年正在接收促进烟草使用的社会和信息信息,但香烟包装上的健康警示标签并没有有效地向幼儿传达反吸烟信息。