Journal article
Exploring Young Adults' Beliefs About Cigar Smoking by Susceptibility: A Belief Elicitation Study
Nicotine & tobacco research, v 25(10), pp 1648-1658
23 Aug 2023
PMID: 37294098
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Abstract
Young adults are at risk for cigar smoking, which is associated with cancers and pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases. Little is known about young adults' beliefs about smoking cigarillos, little filtered cigars, and large cigars, and how these beliefs may vary across cigar types and by cigar susceptibility.
The larger study surveyed a U.S. sample of young adults (18-30 years old) who never used tobacco products (n = 948) through Qualtrics online panel services in August 2021-January 2022. We assessed participants' susceptibility to using different cigar types. Participants were randomly assigned to open-ended questions about one of the three cigar types to elicit behavioral, normative, and control beliefs. We conducted thematic analysis to code emergent themes within each belief and examined the frequency of reported themes at the intersection of cigar type and cigar susceptibility.
Cigar susceptible participants reported positive behavioral beliefs (eg, anticipated relaxation, mood regulation, being cool), friends as supportive referents, and easy-to-smoke control beliefs (eg, high accessibility, low cost) more frequently than non-susceptible participants. Varied frequency by cigar type also emerged. For example, cigarillo and little filtered cigar features were mentioned more frequently as easy-to-smoke control beliefs, while low accessibility was reported more frequently as a hard-to-smoke control belief for large cigars.
Findings identify salient beliefs about cigarillo, little filtered cigar, and large cigar smoking among young adult tobacco never-users. Future research should investigate the potential importance of these beliefs in cigar smoking susceptibility and initiation among young adults, and their potential utility in prevention research.
This thematic analysis identified salient beliefs about cigarillos, little filtered cigars, and large cigars among a U.S. young adult sample, and differentiated emergent beliefs by cigar susceptibility status and by cigar type. Given the lack of cigar smoking prevention media campaigns, identifying these beliefs is the one of the first steps in developing effective cigar smoking prevention strategies. Future quantitative studies are needed to confirm the relationships between these beliefs and smoking initiation of each cigar type to further inform the types of beliefs to be targeted in strategic communication and help prevent cigar smoking initiation among susceptible young adults.
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- Title
- Exploring Young Adults' Beliefs About Cigar Smoking by Susceptibility: A Belief Elicitation Study
- Creators
- Lilianna Phan - National Institute on Minority Health and Health DisparitiesChristen Seyl - University of Nebraska–LincolnJulia Chen-Sankey - Rutgers HealthJeff Niederdeppe - Cornell UniversityMignonne C Guy - Virginia Commonwealth UniversityKymberle L Sterling - University of Texas Health Science Center at DallasKelvin Choi - National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- Publication Details
- Nicotine & tobacco research, v 25(10), pp 1648-1658
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Grant note
- R00 CA242589 / NCI NIH HHS U54 CA229973 / NCI NIH HHS P30 CA072720 / NCI NIH HHS K99 CA272919 / NCI NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Community Health and Prevention
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001013304000001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85168787188
- Other Identifier
- 991021894659604721
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- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
- Substance Abuse