Confirming "truth": More Evidence of a Successful Tobacco Countermarketing Campaign in Florida
Jeff Niederdeppe, MA,
Matthew C. Farrelly, PhD and
M. Lyndon Haviland, DrPH
Jeff Niederdeppe and Matthew C. Farrelly are with RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC. M. Lyndon Haviland is with the American Legacy Foundation, Washington, DC.
Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Jeff Niederdeppe, MA, RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Rd, Research Triangle Park, NC 27612 (e-mail: jniederdeppe{at}rti.org).
This study provides additional evidence that Floridas"truth" tobacco countermarketing campaign was successful inreducing smoking among Florida teens. Smoking rates were substantiallylower among Florida teens between fall 2001 and spring 2002,whereas previous studies found that smoking rates were comparablebefore the launch of "truth." Florida teens had higher levelsof "truth" campaign awareness and were more likely to agreewith campaign-targeted beliefs; 2 of these beliefs were theonly items associated with current smoking.
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