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Youth
Prevention
Research
Targeted smoking cessation messages for adolescents
According to an article published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, providing loss-framed information may influence adolescents to quit smoking. Researchers gathered evaluation data to optimize smoking cessation messages, developed cessation videos with the adolescent audience in mind, and tested the videos to identify the most effective messages for adolescent smoking cessation. The results show that adolescents prefer messages about the long-term health consequences of smoking, as well as social and short-term health effects of smoking. A video showing the cost of continuing to smoke and failing to join a cessation program was more appealing than a video emphasizing the benefits of quitting and joining a cessation program. The authors believe that loss-framed information is most influential to adolescents, and this should be taken into consideration when creating cessation messages. Read the study abstract here.
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Reports
Iowa launches Facebook page to prevent youth addiction (IA)
The Iowa Department of Public Health has launched a new tool for protecting the health of Iowa’s youth. Advocates can visit the Prevent Iowa Youth Addiction Facebook page and click the “Like” button to stay informed and contribute to the discussion about some new (and not-so-new) dangers facing Iowa’s youth. During this launch, there will be a special emphasis on new products the tobacco industry is test marketing. Called “dissolvables,” these smokeless tobacco products closely resemble mints, toothpicks and even breath strips. Some of these items are already being sold in Iowa alongside other new products, including snus and e-cigarettes. This development is particularly dangerous to children in terms of addiction, nicotine poisoning, school performance and future tobacco use. Click here to learn more and contribute to the discussion on Facebook.
New Hampshire stores sold fewer tobacco products to children in 2011 (NH)
Eight percent of New Hampshire stores sold tobacco products to minors in 2011, down from 8.6% in 2010 and 14% in 2009. The director of the Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services says that this decrease shows the results of stronger supervision by both DHHS and the New Hampshire Liquor Commission Division of Enforcement, which collaborate to conduct surveillance of tobacco retail establishments. Read more here.
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