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Perceptions of Tobacco Price Policy among Students from Sapienza University of Rome: Can This Policy Mitigate Smoking Addiction and Its Health Impacts?
- Source :
- Healthcare (2227-9032); May2024, Vol. 12 Issue 9, p944, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Tobacco use is one of the main risk factors for non-communicable diseases. Avoiding youth initiation and treating addiction are fundamental public health issues to ensure better health. Among tobacco control policies, increasing tobacco price is the single most effective intervention. It reduces tobacco consumption, especially among youths, while representing a government financing source. This study aimed to assess the agreement with the proposal of a one-euro increase in tobacco price earmarked to health issues among students at Sapienza University. Two convenience samples were surveyed, five years apart, on World No Tobacco Days. Smoking habits, agreement with the proposal and reasons for it were collected. Results from the 208 questionnaires (107 in 2014, 101 in 2019) showed 46.6% of agreement with the proposal (53.3% in 2014, 39.2% in 2019, p = 0.044). Main predictive factor for agreement was being a non-smoker (OR = 6.33 p < 0.001), main reason (64.8%) was it could trigger smokers to quit or reduce consumption. Several factors might have influenced this finding, including the introduction of novel tobacco products and their increased advertisement on social media. In 2024, European Union is planning to update the Tobacco Taxation Directive which could greatly contribute to the reduction of non-communicable diseases and premature deaths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SUBSTANCE abuse prevention
SMOKING prevention
SOCIAL media
HEALTH impact assessment
GOVERNMENT policy
TOBACCO
HEALTH policy
STATISTICAL sampling
QUESTIONNAIRES
LOGISTIC regression analysis
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
ODDS ratio
PRE-tests & post-tests
PSYCHOLOGY of college students
TOBACCO products
ADULTS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22279032
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Healthcare (2227-9032)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177180312
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12090944