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Smokers Are Not Intimidated by Graphic Photos

February 24, 2016 By Melissa Gansler Leave a Comment

"Example of a graphic image used on cigarette packs"

Smokers perceive the graphic images on the back of cigarette packs as a manipulation attempt.

(Mirror Daily, United States) – According to the latest study, smokers are not intimidated by graphic photos on the back of cigarette packs. Tobacco companies have spent millions of dollars on awareness messages that have no emotional impact on the avid smokers.

Children are the best embodiment when it comes to psychological reluctance. This is a widespread personality trait that basically makes a person want to do something more after being told that they aren’t allowed.

This is exactly why smokers are not intimidated by graphic photos on the back of cigarette packs. They perceive the photos and the messages as an incursion into their freedom of choice. That leads to a cigarette being lit not because that person really wanted a smoke, but rather because the gesture defies the anti-smoking campaigns.

A team of researchers from the Illinois University conducted a study based on the psychological impact of the photos and warning labels displayed on the back of cigarette packs. The results pointed to the fact that smokers are not intimidated by graphic photos.

The team worked on a sample of 435 individuals who were undergraduate students at the Illinois University. Their age varied from 18 to 25. Out of the total of 435, approximately 18 percent were smokers.

The participants were divided into groups. All of them received a questionnaire that was meant to establish their fundamental psychological traits. Afterwards, they were given cigarette packs that featured either the graphic images or the warning labels. They were then asked to write down how those “pieced of advice” made them feel.

According to the paper that was published in the Communication Research journal, the majority of the undergrad participants displayed negative reactions to the use of graphic images as a way of convincing people to stop smoking.

One of the members of the team, Nicole LaVoie, an Illinois University doctoral student declared that the strongest opinions were expressed by people who had a very prominent psychological reluctance. LaVoie also mentioned that smokers tend to have a more protrusive personality than non-smokers. This is why smokers are not intimidated by graphic photos.

The most interesting part of the experiment is that not only the smokers were upset by the use of graphic imagery, but also the non-smoking category. They perceived the descriptive pictures as a sort of manipulation attempt on the government’s part.

The researchers that conducted the study concluded that the current campaign that includes compelling imagery and eloquent messages is not having any positive effects upon the smoking population. They believe that a new approach must be considered since smokers are not intimidated by graphic photos.

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Filed Under: Health Tagged With: anti-smoking campaigns, anti-smoking warnings, Cigarettes, efficiency of graphic images on cigarette packs, graphic images on the back of cigarette packs, smokers are not intimidated by graphic photos, smoking ads, warning labels on cigarette packs

Smoking is Even More Harmful Than Previously Thought

February 16, 2015 By Matthew Slotkin Leave a Comment

Scientists recently linked 5 diseases and health condition that hadn’t previously been associated to smoking to this unfortunate habit. While the fact that cigarette smoking is linked to lung disease, cancer, artery disease, heart attack or stroke is scientifically supported, some scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine have proved that smoking is also related to increased risks of infection, kidney disease, intestinal disease caused by inadequate blood flow as well as heart and lung illnesses that had not been previously attributed to tobacco.

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Scientists studied almost 1 million people and followed them for 10 years in oder to get the most accurate results. And their findings regarding the actual cigarette-related deaths are baffling. Officially it appears that smoking kills around 480,000 people each year in the U.S. But according to Dr. Eric Jacobs, who was a co-author of the study, smoking could actually be killing around 60,000 extra Americans every year (13 % more out of the 480,000 deaths currently attributed to the addictive habit every year).

If these recent findings were applied to the world wide scale, an extra 780,000 across the world could be dying because of smoking each year.

The number of additional deaths potentially linked to cigarette smoking is substantial.

“In our study, many excess deaths among smokers were from disease categories that are not currently established as caused by smoking, and we believe there is strong evidence that many of these deaths may have been caused by smoking,”

Dr. Eric Jacobs said.

An editorial accompanying the study, written by Dr. Graham Golditz, stated that low-income people tend to underestimate the dangers of tobacco use and need more help in order to quit. They have no idea that smoking is worse than previously thought.

By and large the research found that smokers are more likely than nonsmokers to die from one of the established smoking-related diseases, such as: most kinds of heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, stroke,  pneumonia, tuberculosis, influenza, atherosclerosis, aortic aneurysms and other arterial diseases, acute myeloid leukaemia, diabetes, cancers of the lung, colon and rectum, pancreas, kidney, liver, bladder, lip, oral cavity, stomach, larynx and esophagus.

All the above diseases were responsible for deaths among men and women who were still smoking at the end of their lives. Only 17% of deaths female smokers’ deaths and 15% of male smokers’ deaths were traced to other causes than the ones mentioned above.

 

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Cancer, Cigarettes, Disease, Health, heart attack, hypertensive heart disease, infections, intestinal disease smoking, intestinal ischemia, kidney disease smoking, Smoking

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