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

这项研究将调查最近颁布的《家庭吸烟预防和烟草控制法案》对成年吸烟者和戒烟意向的潜在意外后果。利用对成年吸烟者(N=4000；800名非裔美国人，700名西班牙裔)进行的纵向队列调查的第三波新增加的项目，这项研究提案的目的是检验这样一个假设，即对FDA立法的认识与政府对香烟的监管将创造更安全的香烟的信念有关，从而减少吸烟者的戒烟意图(主要结果)、戒烟动机(次要结果)和24小时戒烟尝试的次数(次要结果)。它还将使用多元Logistic回归和路径分析来考察心理社会特征对“意识”和“信念”之间的关系以及“信念”和戒烟意向之间的潜在中介/调节作用。这项研究将使政策制定者和控烟研究人员初步了解吸烟者如何解读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》的其他方面提供参考。 拟议的培训计划将支持申请者完成她在约翰霍普金斯大学彭博公共卫生学院的博士学业，重点是政策和消费者认知对吸烟行为的影响。在两年的时间里，皮尔逊女士将完成调查发展和先进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.