Islam Farahnaz, Salloum Ramzi G, Nakkash Rima, Maziak Wasim, Thrasher James F
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, and Institute for Child Health Policy, University of Florida College of Medicine, PO Box 100177, Gainesville, FL, 32610-0177, USA.
Int J Public Health. 2016 Jul;61(6):709-715. doi: 10.1007/s00038-016-0805-0. Epub 2016 Mar 14.
Youth have the misperception that waterpipe smoking is less harmful than cigarettes despite the evidence that it is associated with nicotine dependence and many of the diseases caused by cigarettes. There is a pressing need to identify effective health warnings that increase awareness about the harmful effects of waterpipe smoking. Our objective was to test the effectiveness of various health warning messages and their location on waterpipe devices.
Adult waterpipe smokers from a large US university (N = 367) completed an internet-based survey that tested the effect of text-only and pictorial health warning labels and their location on different parts of waterpipe smoking devices.
Text-only messages and pictorial labels warning about harm to children were the most effective in motivating waterpipe smokers to think about quitting. In terms of warning label location, the base, mouthpiece and stem are all equally noticeable locations.
This is the first study to test waterpipe-specific warning labels and location on the waterpipe device. Placing waterpipe-specific labels on waterpipe devices may be an effective policy tool to curb waterpipe smoking.
尽管有证据表明水烟吸食与尼古丁依赖以及许多由香烟导致的疾病有关，但青少年仍错误地认为水烟吸食的危害小于香烟。迫切需要确定有效的健康警示，以提高人们对水烟吸食有害影响的认识。我们的目标是测试各种健康警示信息及其在水烟器具上的位置的有效性。
来自美国一所大型大学的成年水烟吸食者（N = 367）完成了一项基于互联网的调查，该调查测试了纯文本和图片健康警示标签及其在水烟吸食器具不同部位的位置的效果。
仅关于对儿童危害的文本信息和图片标签在促使水烟吸食者考虑戒烟方面最为有效。就警示标签位置而言，底座、烟嘴和烟杆都是同样显眼的位置。
这是第一项测试水烟专用警示标签及其在水烟器具上位置的研究。在水烟器具上张贴水烟专用标签可能是遏制水烟吸食的一项有效政策工具。
