title: Learning from truth: youth participation in field marketing techniques to counter tobacco advertising.
abstract: In 2000, the American Legacy Foundation (Legacy) launched truth, a national, multi-medium tobacco control social marketing campaign targeting youth age 12-17. This paper provides a brief description of one aspect of that campaign, the truth tour, and compares and contrasts the truth tour with commercial field marketing approaches used by the tobacco industry. The methods used for the tour's process evaluation are also described, and two important lessons learned about using field marketing techniques and using youth to implement field marketing techniques in social marketing campaigns are discussed. Social marketing campaigns that target youth may want to launch field marketing activities. The truth tour experience can inform the development of those efforts.
authors.affiliation: The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA. merril@u.arizona.edu
authors.forename: Merrill
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eisenberg
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ringwalt
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Driscoll
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vallee
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gullette
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D002648:Child; D005582:Foundations; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D040541:Marketing / Q000379:methods*; D010565:Persuasive Communication; D015980:Public Health Practice; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D040241:Social Marketing; D019460:Tobacco Industry; D014481:United States