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Appendix F: Questionnaire

PHASE 1: PROCEDURE

WITHIN EACH AGE GROUP (YOUTH, YOUNG ADULT, ADULT), RANDOMLY ASSIGN PARTICIPANTS INTO A CONTROL CONDITION OR ONE OF 16 EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS.

IN EACH CONDITION, RESPONDENTS WILL VIEW 9 OF 26 WARNING STATEMENT STIMULI (TABLE 1), WITH VARIATION IN THE STIMULI INCLUDED ACCORDING TO THE STUDY CONDITION (TABLE 2).

TABLE 1. WARNING STATEMENTS
#
STATEMENT
ORIGINAL

S1
WARNING: Cigarettes are addictive.
S2
WARNING: Tobacco smoke can harm your children.
S3
WARNING: Cigarettes cause fatal lung disease.
S4
WARNING: Cigarettes cause cancer.
S5
WARNING: Cigarettes cause strokes and heart disease.
S6
WARNING: Smoking during pregnancy can harm your baby.
S7
WARNING: Smoking can kill you.
S8
WARNING: Tobacco smoke causes fatal lung disease in nonsmokers.
S9
WARNING: Quitting smoking now greatly reduces serious risks to your health.

REVISED

R1A
WARNING: Smoking causes mouth and throat cancer.
R1B
WARNING: Smoking causes head and neck cancer.
R1C
WARNING: Smoking causes bladder cancer, which can lead to bloody urine.
R2A
WARNING: Smoking during pregnancy causes premature birth.
R2B
WARNING: Smoking during pregnancy stunts fetal growth.
R2C
WARNING: Smoking during pregnancy causes premature birth and low birth weight.
R3A
WARNING: Secondhand smoke causes respiratory illnesses in children like pneumonia.
R4A
WARNING: Smoking can cause heart disease and strokes by clogging arteries.
R5A
WARNING: Smoking causes COPD, a lung disease that can be fatal.
R5B
WARNING: Smoking causes serious lung diseases like emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
R6A
WARNING: Smoking reduces blood flow, which can cause erectile dysfunction.
R6B
WARNING: Smoking reduces blood flow to the limbs, which can require amputation.
R7A
WARNING: Smoking causes type 2 diabetes, which raises blood sugar.
R8A
WARNING: Smoking causes age-related macular degeneration, which can lead to blindness.
R8B
WARNING: Smoking causes cataracts, which can lead to blindness.

TABLE 2. STUDY CONDITIONS
CONDITION
STIMULI SLOT (RANDOMIZE ORDER)

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0 (CONTROL)
S1
S2
S3
S4
S5
S6
S7
S8
S9
1
S1
S2
S3
R1A
S5
S6
S7
S8
S9
2
S1
S2
S3
R1B
S5
S6
S7
S8
S9
3
S1
S2
S3
R1C
S5
S6
S7
S8
S9
4
S1
S2
S3
S4
S5
R2A
S7
S8
S9
5
S1
S2
S3
S4
S5
R2B
S7
S8
S9
6
S1
S2
S3
S4
S5
R2C
S7
S8
S9
7
S1
R3A
S3
S4
S5
S6
S7
S8
S9
8
S1
S2
S3
S4
R4A
S6
S7
S8
S9
9
S1
S2
S3
S4
S5
S6
S7
R5A
S9
10
S1
S2
R5A
S4
S5
S6
S7
S8
S9
11
S1
S2
R5B
S4
S5
S6
S7
S8
S9
12
RANDOM SELECTION OF 8 OF 9 ORIGINAL (“S”) STATEMENTS
R6A
13
RANDOM SELECTION OF 8 OF 9 ORIGINAL (“S”) STATEMENTS
R6B
14
RANDOM SELECTION OF 8 OF 9 ORIGINAL (“S”) STATEMENTS
R7A
15
RANDOM SELECTION OF 8 OF 9 ORIGINAL (“S”) STATEMENTS
R8A
16
RANDOM SELECTION OF 8 OF 9 ORIGINAL (“S”) STATEMENTS
R8B

SURVEY INSTRUMENT

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: The public reporting burden for this information collection has been estimated to average 15 minutes per response to complete this survey (the time estimated to read and complete). Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspects of this information collection, including suggestions for reducing burden, to [email protected].

SECTION A: WARNING STATEMENT PERCEPTIONS

INTRO_TEXT_1. In this survey, we are going to ask you to read some warning statements that might someday be placed with an image showing that health effect of smoking on a pack of cigarettes and on advertisements for cigarettes. Please read each statement carefully and answer the questions that follow to the best of your ability.

[FOR EACH OF 9 STATEMENTS, DISPLAY INTRO_TEXT_2 WITH THE WARNING STATEMENT BELOW ON A SINGLE SCREEN. KEEP WARNING STATEMENT VISIBLE THROUGH SECTION A. ASK SECTION A ITEMS ON FOLLOWING SCREENS. REPEAT SECTION A FOR EACH OF 9 STATEMENTS ACCORDING TO RESPONDENT’S ASSIGNED CONDITION. RANDOMIZE ORDER OF STATEMENTS PRESENTED.]

INTRO_TEXT_2. Please read the warning statement below. After reading the statement, you will be asked a few questions about the warning statement.

[DISPLAY STATEMENT X]

A1. Before today, had you heard about the specific smoking-related health effect described in the warning statement?

1. Yes
2. No
3. I’m not sure

A2. To what extent did you learn something new from this warning statement that you did not know before?

Not at all [1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
Very much [7]
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

A3. How much does this warning statement make you think about the health risks of smoking?

1. Not at all
2. A little
3. Somewhat
4. A lot

A4. This statement is…

A4_1. Not at all believable [1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
Very believable [7]
A4_2. Not at all informative [1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
Very informative [7]

A5_INTRO. Next, we would like to know whether you think this warning statement is an opinion or a fact. Opinions are judgements or feelings that cannot be proven true or false. Facts are statements that can be proven true or false.

A5_1. Would you say that this warning statement is an opinion or a fact?

1. Opinion
2. Fact

SECTION B: POST-TEST OUTCOMES

Next, we would like to ask you some questions about your beliefs about smoking-related health effects.

How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
[RANDOMIZE ORDER OF ITEM “BLOCKS” ACCORDING TO ITEM PREFIX (I.E. RANDOMIZE B1_, B2_, B3_ SERIES, ETC.]

[WARNING: Smoking causes mouth and throat cancer]

B1_1. Smoking causes mouth cancer