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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Warning labels do work. Turn the bottle the other way or pour in a glass if you don’t want to see it. The doctor knows more than you do.

We found that graphic warnings had a statistically significant effect on smoking prevalence and quit attempts. In particular, the warnings decreased the odds of being a smoker (odds ratio [OR] = 0.875; 95% CI = 0.821–0.932) and increased the odds of making a quit attempt (OR = 1.330, CI = 1.187–1.490). Similar results were obtained when we allowed for more time for the warnings to appear in retail outlets.

https://academic.oup.com/ntr/article/15/3/708/1091051

Pictorial warning labels proposed by FDA create unfavorable emotional reactions to smoking that predict reduced cigarette use compared to text alone, with even smokers low in self-efficacy exhibiting some reduction. Predictions that low self-efficacy smokers will respond unfavorably to warnings were not supported.

https://academic.oup.com/abm/article/52/1/53/4737219

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They do work, they are not for "education" or "information". Just another proof that propaganda works on everyone.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ah yes the evil doctors are spreading propaganda scheming to make you healthier.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They literally are. The mechanism of warning labels working is not via educating you about something once, and letting you make a decision, it's about telling you over and over again.

It works via constant relentless bombardment of the same message over and over, just like propaganda and advertising.

It is effective, but it is also not effective just through "education" or making people well informed.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your bias shows, there was nothing in my post about good or evil doctors.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The irony of complaining about someone else's bias when your previous comment called information "propaganda"...

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago

It is propaganda in its purest form, again people are trained by propaganda to view it as sonething bad and only done by evil organizations. Of course "scary pictures" work on cigarettes, that's their intended purpose, and they would work as well on alcohol or whatever would be unacceptable next year. I'm not against and don't care much about something that happens essentially in a different world.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

What do you think 'propaganda' means?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Where did I say that they didn't work?

I said that the method of working was through nagging, not education.