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Marketing and Explanatory Processes in Tobacco Progression Among Vulnerable Youth

Award Number: R01HD077560
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/17/2013
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2019

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Marketing and Explanatory Processes in Tobacco Progression Among Vulnerable Youth - DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Important links between exposure to tobacco marketing and tobacco use in youth have previously been uncovered. However, previous longitudinal research on tobacco marketing effects has not focused on particularly vulnerable populations or on youth during transitions in later adolescence when tobacco use experimentation often escalates and consolidates into life-long habits. Previous longitudinal research also has not investigated likely explanatory processes (intervening cognitive processes/mediators) through which marketing exposure has effects on tobacco use trajectories. The present project focuses on a vulnerable, lower SES, multi-ethnic (primarily Hispanic and non-Hispanic White) population of youth with substantially higher rates of smoking than the national norm, during ages in which dramatic changes in tobacco habits occur (16 to 20). Something must explain the substantially higher rates of tobacco use escalation in this population, and tobacco marketing at retail outlets in lower SES neighborhoods is one strong possibility. This project also evaluates key credible explanatory processes, well grounded in basic research across several disciplines. Some of the most credible processes that can explain marketing effects, not previously studied in this domain, have received consistent support from multiple lines of independent evidence across neural, cognitive, and behavioral levels of analysis --not merely survey or psychometric evidence. The study of marketing effects in a vulnerable population over critical ages, coupled with research on some of the most credible explanatory processes, will provide clear regulatory guidance to the FDA about any needs for new regulations on point-of- sale tobacco marketing (POS). Regulatory changes would be strongly suggested by firm evidence that POS has especially strong, explainable effects in lower SES neighborhoods and vulnerable populations. To investigate these effects and credible processes this project implements a cohort-sequential design in 1000 vulnerable youth from a multi-ethnic population in southern California. Three design features in this proposal are especially important to provide strong inference for any link between POS tobacco advertising and tobacco use, which is needed to support FDA policy decisions. First, the design allows the most rigorous testing of the temporal relationship among the variables, to date, one of the key criteria for causality. Second, testing for the intervening variables will provide support for plausible causal mechanisms also buttressed by extensive basic research. Finally, potential confounders and covariates are comprehensively assessed and thoroughly evaluated. The project provides the most rigorous, potentially most informative study to date about tobacco marketing effects in older youth. Results are likely to reveal why some older adolescents have substantially higher smoking rates (more than double the national average), leading to critical health risks in the future. Thus, the project has a strong potential for major regulatory implications for protecting the public health in adolescents. 1


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2020	2017	CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY	150 E 10TH ST	CLAREMONT	CA	91711	LOS ANGELES	USA	Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Regulatory Research	001	5	3/10/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2020	2017	CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY	150 E 10TH ST	CLAREMONT	CA	91711	LOS ANGELES	USA	Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Regulatory Research	000	5	12/26/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = -$157,417 )
2019	2015	CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY	150 E 10TH ST	CLAREMONT	CA	91711	LOS ANGELES	USA	Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Regulatory Research	002	3	6/24/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2019	2015	CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY	150 E 10TH ST	CLAREMONT	CA	91711	LOS ANGELES	USA	Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Regulatory Research	001	3	6/20/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2019	2015	CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY	150 E 10TH ST	CLAREMONT	CA	91711	LOS ANGELES	USA	Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Regulatory Research	000	3	6/20/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$157,417
														Subtotal = -$157,417

Issue Date FY: 2017 ( Subtotal = $638,245 )
2017	2017	CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY	150 E 10TH ST	CLAREMONT	CA	91711	LOS ANGELES	USA	Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Regulatory Research	002	5	7/26/2017	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$638,245
2017	2016	CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY	150 E 10TH ST	CLAREMONT	CA	91711	LOS ANGELES	USA	Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Regulatory Research	001	4	12/28/2016	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$3,974
2017	2015	CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY	150 E 10TH ST	CLAREMONT	CA	91711	LOS ANGELES	USA	Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Regulatory Research	000	3	12/28/2016	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$3,974
														Subtotal = $638,245

Issue Date FY: 2016 ( Subtotal = $657,766 )
2016	2016	CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY	150 EAST 8TH STREET	CLAREMONT	CA	91711	LOS ANGELES	USA	Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Regulatory Research	000	4	8/22/2016	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$657,766
														Subtotal = $657,766

Issue Date FY: 2015 ( Subtotal = $655,859 )
2015	2015	CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY	150 EAST 8TH STREET	CLAREMONT	CA	91711	LOS ANGELES	USA	Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Regulatory Research	000	3	7/14/2015	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$655,859
														Subtotal = $655,859

Issue Date FY: 2014 ( Subtotal = $654,529 )
2014	2014	CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY	150 EAST 8TH STREET	CLAREMONT	CA	91711	LOS ANGELES	USA	Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Regulatory Research	000	2	8/25/2014	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$654,529
														Subtotal = $654,529

Issue Date FY: 2013 ( Subtotal = $582,752 )
2013	2013	CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY	150 EAST 8TH STREET	CLAREMONT	CA	91711	LOS ANGELES	USA	Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Regulatory Research	000	1	9/17/2013	NEW	$582,752
														Subtotal = $582,752

Grand Total All Awards = $3,031,734

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Marketing and Explanatory Processes in Tobacco Progression Among Vulnerable Youth

Award Number: R01HD077560

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/17/2013

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2019

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