title: Retail point-of-sale guardianship and juvenile tobacco purchases: assessing the prevention capabilities of undergraduate college students.
abstract: This randomized experiment evaluates the attitudes and behavioral intentions of 458 undergraduate college students about intervening with the intent of preventing an illegal retail purchase of tobacco products by a minor after exposure to a factorial combination of three pieces of information. MANOVA results show that none of the treatment conditions, considered alone, are correlated with increased attitudes or behavioral intentions; however, there is a significant interaction effect on attitudes when information portraying a potentially annoying situation is combined with information about the costs associated with youth tobacco use. Post-hoc t tests suggest that this effect is concentrated among non-tobacco using respondents.
authors.affiliation: Bemidji State University, Minnesota 56601-2699, USA. tgilbertson@bemidjistate.edu
authors.forename: Troy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gilbertson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D040541:Marketing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D033242:Minors / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012907:Smoking / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D012941:Social Responsibility; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D019460:Tobacco Industry / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities