title: What Does Having Your Pack in Your Pocket Say About You? Characteristics and Attitude Differences of Youth Carrying Tobacco at a Music Festival.
abstract: The purpose of this study is to understand differences in demographics, frequency of tobacco use, and tobacco-related attitudes between youth/young adults who carry tobacco products and those who do not. Carrying tobacco is hypothesized to affect individuals' smoker identity and thereby their tobacco-related attitudes. Carriers are an influential peer group, often serving as social sources of tobacco for others, setting tobacco-related social norms, and advertising tobacco via the packs they carry. Thus, understanding their characteristics and attitudes can aid in the targeting and tailoring of cessation messaging. In this study, 3,927 attendees ages 13 to 24 years at the Vans Warped Tour were surveyed using iPads and asked to photograph any tobacco products they were currently carrying. Current tobacco users were classified as proven carriers ( n = 363), unproven carriers ( n = 182), or noncarriers ( n = 1,426). Carriers ( N = 545) were older, were more often White, and used tobacco over twice as often as noncarriers. Results indicated carriers and noncarriers differed significantly on most antitobacco attitudes, with carriers feeling less strongly antitobacco.
authors.affiliation: 1 Truth Initiative, Washington, DC, USA.|2 George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Prevention and Community Health, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Vinu
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ilakkuvan
authors.affiliation: 1 Truth Initiative, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Reubenstein
authors.affiliation: 1 Truth Initiative, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Haijun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: 1 Truth Initiative, Washington, DC, USA.|3 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Health, Behavior, and Society, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rath
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D010379:Peer Group; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D066262:Social Norms
keywords: adolescent health; health behavior; smoking and tobacco use; social influence; substance use