Department of Communication, Cornell University, 494 Mann Library Building, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Health Educ Res. 2023 Sep 20;38(5):426-444. doi: 10.1093/her/cyad033.
The influences of information exposure on youth and young adults' (YYA) support for smoking/vaping regulations have been understudied. This study examines (i) the relationships between routine exposure to (i.e. scanning) anti-smoking/pro-vaping information and YYA support for anti-smoking/vaping regulations and (ii) whether these relationships differ across YYA users and non-users of tobacco products. We analyzed the data from a nationally representative two-wave rolling cross-sectional survey of YYA in the United States, collected from 2014 to 2017 (baseline n = 10 642; follow-up n = 4001). Less than 5% of the participants ever scanned pro-smoking and anti-vaping information. Scanning anti-smoking information had significant positive relationships with support for all anti-smoking policies cross-sectionally, and this pattern was longitudinally significant in two anti-smoking policy contexts. Scanning pro-vaping information had significant negative associations with support for anti-vaping policies cross-sectionally, but not longitudinally. The lagged positive relationships between scanning anti-smoking information and support for anti-smoking regulations were stronger among YYA smokers than among YYA non-smokers, whereas evidence from adult data suggested the opposite pattern. The findings suggest that scanning information can affect YYA support for tobacco regulations. Future efforts are required to investigate mechanisms underlying the influences of scanned information on YYA support for tobacco regulations.
信息曝光对青少年和年轻成年人（YYA）支持吸烟/电子烟法规的影响尚未得到充分研究。本研究考察了（i）常规接触（即扫描）反吸烟/支持电子烟信息与 YYA 支持反吸烟/电子烟法规之间的关系，以及（ii）这些关系是否因 YYA 烟草制品使用者和非使用者而异。我们分析了 2014 年至 2017 年期间在美国进行的一项针对 YYA 的全国代表性两波滚动横断面调查的数据（基线 n=10642；随访 n=4001）。不到 5%的参与者曾经扫描过支持吸烟和反电子烟信息。扫描反吸烟信息与所有反吸烟政策的支持呈显著正相关，这种模式在两种反吸烟政策背景下具有纵向显著性。扫描支持电子烟信息与支持反电子烟政策呈显著负相关，但没有纵向关系。扫描反吸烟信息与支持反吸烟法规之间的滞后正相关关系在 YYA 吸烟者中比在 YYA 非吸烟者中更强，而来自成人数据的证据表明则相反。研究结果表明，扫描信息会影响 YYA 对烟草法规的支持。未来需要努力研究扫描信息对 YYA 支持烟草法规的影响的机制。
