title: Effectiveness of tobacco control television advertisements with different types of emotional content on tobacco use in England, 2004-2010.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the effects of tobacco control television advertisements with positive and negative emotional content on adult smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption.
  
  
  METHODS
  Analysis of monthly cross-sectional surveys using generalised additive models.
  
  
  METHODS
  England.
  
  
  METHODS
  60 000 adults aged 18 years or over living in England and interviewed in the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey from 2004 to 2010.
  
  
  METHODS
  Current smoking status, daily cigarette consumption, tobacco control gross rating points (GRPs-a measure of per capita advertising exposure), cigarette costliness, concurrent tobacco control policies, sociodemographic variables.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After adjusting for cigarette costliness, other tobacco control policies and individual characteristics, we found that a 400-point increase in positive emotive GRPs was associated with 7% lower odds of smoking (odds ratio (OR) 0.93, 95% CI 0.87 to 0.98) 1 month later and a similar increase in negative emotive GRPs was significantly associated with 4% lower odds of smoking (OR 0.96, 95% CI 0.92 to 0.999) 2 months later. An increase in negative emotive GRPs from 0 to 400 was also associated with a significant 3.3% (95% CI 1.1 to 5.6) decrease in average cigarette consumption. There was no evidence that the association between positive emotive GRPs and the outcomes differed depending on the intensity of negative emotive GRPs (and vice versa).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This is the first study to explore the effects of campaigns with different types of emotive content on adult smoking prevalence and consumption. It suggests that both types of campaign (positive and negative) are effective in reducing smoking prevalence, whereas consumption among smokers was only affected by campaigns evoking negative emotions.
authors.affiliation: Department for Health, UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sims
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Langley
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Richardson
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Szatkowski
authors.affiliation: UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McNeill
authors.affiliation: Department for Health, UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Gilmore
mesh_terms: D000329:Advertising; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004644:Emotions; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013690:Television; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Advertising and Promotion; Media; Public policy