Pictorial cigarette pack warnings increase quitting: a comment on Kok et al.
Creators: name: Noar, Seth M.
name: Hall, Marissa G.
name: Brewer, Noel T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018

description: <p><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Cambria, 'Cambria Math', Charter, 'Times New Roman', Times, stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">In this issue of&nbsp;</span><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Cambria, 'Cambria Math', Charter, 'Times New Roman', Times, stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Health Psychology Review</em><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Cambria, 'Cambria Math', Charter, 'Times New Roman', Times, stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">,&nbsp;</span><a class="usa-link" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; color: #005ea2; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Cambria, 'Cambria Math', Charter, 'Times New Roman', Times, stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal;" href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5906160/#R8" aria-describedby="R8" aria-expanded="false">Kok et al. (2018)</a><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Cambria, 'Cambria Math', Charter, 'Times New Roman', Times, stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">&nbsp;argue that pictorial cigarette pack warnings are ineffective. Evidence published recently, however, shows that pictorial warnings do decrease smoking which is a notably deadly behavior (</span><a class="usa-link" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; color: #005ea2; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Cambria, 'Cambria Math', Charter, 'Times New Roman', Times, stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal;" href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5906160/#R2" aria-describedby="R2" aria-expanded="false">Brewer et al., 2016</a><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Cambria, 'Cambria Math', Charter, 'Times New Roman', Times, stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">;&nbsp;</span><a class="usa-link" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; color: #005ea2; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Cambria, 'Cambria Math', Charter, 'Times New Roman', Times, stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal;" href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5906160/#R15" aria-describedby="R15" aria-expanded="false">Noar et al., 2017</a><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Cambria, 'Cambria Math', Charter, 'Times New Roman', Times, stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">). Our commentary summarizes evidence of pictorial warnings&rsquo; effectiveness and comments on other aspects of the article.</span></p>