Packaging is an important form of promotion for consumer products. Governments are also learning how to use packaging to inform consumer about the health risk of products. To date, more than 100 countries require large pictorial health warnings on tobacco products, as recommended under Article 11 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
Our research has contributed to best practices for design health warnings and has evaluated the impact of health warnings on tobacco products in a wide range of countries around the world. Our studies have also examined the effectiveness of health warnings on other consumer products, including e-cigarettes, cannabis, and alcohol.
Recent papers on health warnings
Pre-post implementation policy support for warnings on cigarette filters in canada among adults who smoke cigarettes.
Hackworth EE, Petillo S, Sun Y, Vidana D, Moodie C, Niederdeppe J, Hammond D, Thrasher JF. Tobacco Control 2024; Dec 2:tc-2024-058946. doi: 10.1136/tc-2024-058946. Epub ahead
Pre-post implementation policy support for warnings on cigarette filters in canada among adults who smoke cigarettes.
Hackworth EE, Petillo S, Sun Y, Vidana D, Moodie C, Niederdeppe J, Hammond D, Thrasher JF. Tobacco Control 2024; In Press.
Lived experiences of stigma and altered self-perceptions among young people who are addicted to ENDS: A qualitative study from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Graham-DeMello A, Sanders C, Hosking R, Teddy L, Ball J, Gallopel-Morvan K, van der Eijk Y, Hammond D, Hoek J. Tobacco Control 2024; In Press.
Testing alcohol container warning labels among alcohol consumers in the field over a 4-week period: a protocol for a randomized field trial.
Hobin E, Bains A, Poon T, Forbes T, Hammond D, Naimi T, Smith B, Sherk A, Stockwell T, Vanderlee L, Thompson K, Meyer S. Journal
Differential responses to cigarette package labeling alternatives among adults who smoke: Results from a randomized trial.
Thrasher JF, Hackworth EE, Ferguson SG, Xiong L, Kim M, Yang C-H, Hammond D, Sun Y, Hardin JW, Niederdeppe J. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2024;
A systematic review of cannabis health warning research.
Massey ZB, Hammond D, Froeliger B. Preventive medicine reports 2024; 37: doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102573.
Support for pictorial health warning labels on cigarette packages in the United States among adults who currently smoke or quit smoking: Findings from the ITC US Smoking and Vaping Surveys.
Gravely S, Meng G, Hammond D, Driezen P, Thrasher JF, Fong GT, Craig LV, Chung-Hall J, Quah ACK, Ouimet J, Bansal-Travers M, Cummings KM. Tobacco
Do Mandatory Health Warning Labels on Consumer Products Increase Recall of the Health Risks of Cannabis?
Goodman S, Leos-Toro C, Hammond D. Substance Use & Misuse 2022; 57(4): 569-580.
Estimation of prevalence of smoking and smoking-attributable mortality associated with cigarette package graphic health warnings.
Tam J, Jeon J, Thrasher JF, Hammond D, Holford TR, Levy DT, Meza R. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Health Forum 2021; 2(9):
Noticing of cannabis health warning labels in Canada and the US.
Goodman S, Hammond D. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention 2021; 41(7/8).
Reports on health warnings
Measures to assess the effectiveness of restrictions on tobacco product labeling policies.
IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention, Tobacco Control, Volume 12: Methods for Evaluating Tobacco Control Policies. International Agency for Research on Cancer. Lyon, France; 2008.
Pre-testing and evaluating warning messages for tobacco products.
Hammond D, Reid JL. University of Waterloo; 2011.
