Standardised packs and larger health warnings: visual attention and perceptions among Colombian smokers and non‐smokers

Aims To measure how cigarette packaging (standardised packaging and branded packaging) and health warning size affect visual attention and pack preferences among Colombian smokers and non‐smokers. Design To explore visual attention, we used an eye‐tracking experiment where non‐smokers, weekly smoker...

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Published in:Addiction (Abingdon, England) England), 2022-06, Vol.117 (6), p.1737-1747
Main Authors: Sillero‐Rejon, Carlos, Mahmoud, Osama, Tamayo, Ricardo M., Clavijo‐Alvarez, Alvaro Arturo, Adams, Sally, Maynard, Olivia M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Attention
Brand names
Brands
Cigarettes
Colombia
Discrete choice
Experiments
Eye
eye‐tracking
Health warnings
Humans
Male
Males
Non-Smokers
Packaging
Perceptions
plain packaging
Product Labeling - methods
Product Packaging
Research Report
Research Reports
Smokers
Smoking
South America
standardised packaging
Taste
tobacco
Tobacco Products
Tracking
Visual attention
Visual perception
Warnings
Young Adult
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Summary:Aims To measure how cigarette packaging (standardised packaging and branded packaging) and health warning size affect visual attention and pack preferences among Colombian smokers and non‐smokers. Design To explore visual attention, we used an eye‐tracking experiment where non‐smokers, weekly smokers and daily smokers were shown cigarette packs varying in warning size (30%‐pictorial on top of the text, 30%‐pictorial and text side‐by‐side, 50%, 70%) and packaging (standardised packaging, branded packaging). We used a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to examine the impact of warning size, packaging and brand name on preferences to try, taste perceptions and perceptions of harm. Setting Eye‐tracking laboratory, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. Participants Participants (n = 175) were 18 to 40 years old. Measurements For the eye‐tracking experiment, our primary outcome measure was the number of fixations toward the health warning compared with the branding. For the DCE, outcome measures were preferences to try, taste perceptions and harm perceptions. Findings We observed greater visual attention to warning labels on standardised versus branded packages (F[3,167] = 22.87, P 
ISSN:0965-2140
1360-0443
DOI:10.1111/add.15779