The Effect of the Tobacco Control Act on Smoker's Intention to Quit Smoking

这项研究将探讨最近颁布的《家庭吸烟预防和烟草控制法》对成年吸烟者戒烟和戒烟意愿的潜在意外后果。在成年吸烟者纵向队列调查的第3波中使用新插入的项目（N=4000; 800名非裔美国人，700名西班牙裔），本研究提案的目的是检验以下假设：对FDA立法的认识与政府对卷烟的监管将创造更安全的卷烟的信念有关，从而降低吸烟者的戒烟意愿（主要结局）、戒烟动机（次要结局）和24小时戒烟尝试次数（次要结局）。它还将研究潜在的中介/调节作用的心理社会特征之间的关系“意识”和“信念”和“信念”和意图退出使用多元逻辑回归和路径分析。这项研究将使政策制定者和烟草控制研究人员首次了解吸烟者如何解释政府对烟草产品的监管，并可能为实施《家庭吸烟预防和烟草控制法》的其他方面提供信息。 拟议的培训计划将支持申请人完成她在约翰霍普金斯彭博公共卫生学院的博士研究，重点是政策和消费者感知对吸烟行为的影响。在两年的时间里，皮尔森女士将完成调查开发和高级统计方法的方法课程，与她的赞助商和共同赞助商一起开发手稿，并完成拟议的研究，目标是成为一名独立的烟草控制研究人员。

This research will examine the potential unintended consequences of the recently enacted Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act on adult smokers' and intention to quit. Using newly-inserted items in the 3rd wave of a longitudinal cohort survey of adult smokers (N=4000; 800 African American, 700 Hispanic), the purpose of this research proposal is to test the hypothesis that awareness of FDA legislation is linked to belief that government regulation of cigarettes will create a safer cigarette, thus decreasing smokers' intention to quit (primary outcome), motivation to quit (secondary outcome) and number of 24-hour quit attempts (secondary outcome). It will also examine the potential mediating/moderating effects of psychosocial characteristics on the relationship between "awareness" and "belief" and between "belief" and intention to quit using multiple logistic regression and path analysis. This research will give policymakers and tobacco control researchers a first look as to how smokers interpret government regulation of tobacco products, and may inform the implementation other aspects of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. The proposed training program will support the applicant in the completion of her doctoral studies at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, focusing on the effects of policy and consumer perception on smoking behavior. Over the course of two years, Ms. Pearson will complete methods courses in survey development and advanced statistical methods, develop manuscripts with her sponsor and co-sponsor, and complete the proposed research, with the goal of becoming an independent tobacco control researcher.