Ron Borland
Biographic Data
| ID | 98319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ron Borland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ron |
| FAMILY NAME | Borland |
| SIGNATURE | BORLAND R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cancer Council Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0059-178X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 126 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 126 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Holding on to Hope”
The Quitlink trial was registered with ANZCTR (www.anzctr.org.au): ACTRN12619000244101 prior to the accrual of the first participant and updated regularly as per registry guidelines
Future nicotine use preferences of current cigarette smokers
A qualitative study of using nicotine products for smoking cessation after discharge from residential drug and alcohol treatment in Australia
Support for banning sale of smoked tobacco products among adults who smoke
Opposition to banning smoked tobacco predominates among people who smoke, but less with a cessation assistance scenario than one encouraging nicotine substitution. Wanting to quit a lot was the strongest indicator of support
Transformation of the tobacco product market in Japan, 2011–2023
While many factors may account for the decreased sale of cigarettes in Japan over the past 12 years, the increased sale of HTPs appears to be a factor
Do Australians use the prescription pathway when using nicotine vaping products to quit smoking
Trends in alcohol expenditure in Australia from 1984 to 2015–2016
Differences in Smoking Cessation Behaviors and Vaping Status among Adult Daily Smokers with and Without Depression, Anxiety, and Alcohol Use
This study examined differences in quit attempts, 1-month quit success, and vaping status at follow-up among a cohort of 3709 daily smokers with and without depression, anxiety, and regular alcohol use who participated in both the 2018 and 2020 International Tobacco Control Four Country Smoking and Vaping (ITC 4CV) Surveys. At baseline, a survey with validated screening tools was used to classify respondents as having no, or one or more of the fo…
Support for nicotine reduction in cigarettes
More than half of respondents in all four countries-including those who smoked daily-supported a hypothetical VLNC standard to render cigarettes less addictive. It is important to examine if support is sustained after policies are implemented
Do post‐quitting experiences predict smoking relapse among former smokers in Australia and the United Kingdom? Findings from the International Tobacco Control Surveys
A critical analysis of ‘Electronic cigarettes and health outcomes
The value of compassionate support to address smoking
The Quitlink trial was registered with ANZCTR (www.anzctr.org.au): ACTRN12619000244101 prior to the accrual of the first participant and updated regularly as per registry guidelines
Adapting Peer Researcher Facilitated Strategies to Recruit People Receiving Mental Health Services to a Tobacco Treatment Trial
The trial is registered with ANZCTR (www.anzctr.org.au): ACTRN12619000244101 prior to the accrual of the first participant and updated regularly as per registry guidelines. The trial sponsor was the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Do Current Smokers and Ex-Smokers Who Use Nicotine Vaping Products Daily Versus Weekly Differ on Their Reasons for Vaping? Findings from the 2020 ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey
This study examined reasons why adults who currently smoke or formerly smoked cigarettes use nicotine vaping products (NVPs) by vaping frequency (daily vs. weekly) stratified by smoking status. This cross-sectional study included 3070 adults from the 2020 ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey (Australia, Canada, England, United States) who reported using a NVP (vaping) at least weekly and who either currently smoke ( n = 2467) or formerly sm…
The Predictive Utility of Valuing the Future for Smoking Cessation
Understanding the mechanisms of action of TP and DD can advance our understanding of, and ability to enhance, goal-directed behavioural change. TP appears to contribute to future intention formation, but not necessarily practical thought of how to achieve goals. DD is more likely an index of capacity to effectively generate competing future possibilities in response to immediate gratification
Experienced Effects on Well-Being following Smoking Cessation
Most ex-smokers reported changes in their well-being since quitting, with more reporting improvements than declines. Well-being improved with duration of time since quitting, but did not appear to be influenced by daily vaping use, but stress coping may be better among vapers. Persisting worries about possible future health effects from smoking may be reducing the experienced benefits of quitting smoking for some
‘It’s all the other stuff!’ How smokers understand (and misunderstand) chemicals in cigarettes and cigarette smoke
Many people understand chemicals as entities that do not occur naturally, and which are also invariably toxic. Tobacco control messages liberally use the term ‘chemicals’ to evoke these meanings and create concern among smokers. This may reinforce misunderstandings, potentially leading to smokers making harmful choices. To investigate smokers’ understandings of chemicals, we conducted qualitative research using 18 individual interviews and three …
Don’t Know” Responses for Nicotine Vaping Product Features among Adult Vapers
Nicotine vaping products (NVPs) have evolved rapidly, and some vapers have difficulty reporting about their NVP. NVP knowledge may be important for providing accurate survey data, understanding the potential risks of NVP use, and assessing legal and regulated products. This paper examines current vapers who responded "don't know" (DK) regarding their NVP features. Data are from adult daily/weekly vapers in Waves Two (2018, n = 4192) and Three (20…
Evaluating the impact of plain packaging among Canadian smokers
Plain packaging in Canada substantially reduced pack appeal and increased support for the policy among adult smokers; however, there was no increase in the effectiveness of Canada's 8-year-old HWLs. The impact of plain packaging on health warning effectiveness may depend on the design of the warnings and length of time since implementation
Characteristics and changes over time of nicotine vaping products used by vapers in the 2016 and 2018 ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys
Most vapers continued using the same vaping device and features over 18 months. Differences in NVP types and features were observed between countries, suggesting that differing NVP regulations affect consumer choices regarding the type of vaping device to use
Smokers’ awareness of filter ventilation, and how they believe it affects them
Awareness of filter ventilation is currently low, despite decades of public 'education efforts around the misleading nature of 'light' and 'mild" descriptors. Few smokers realise that their cigarettes almost certainly are vented. Smokers who believed their cigarettes have filter ventilation were more likely to believe they were both smoother and less harmful. Awareness of the technology appears to be insufficient to prevent smokers being deceived…
Attitudes towards a hypothetical ‘clean nicotine’ product and harm reduction among smokers
Response to Chapman and Daube
Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the commentary by Chapman and Daube.[1] In our view, they misrepresent the evidence and selectively use data to support a preconceived position.First, they state that results of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) overestimate cessation rates so cannot be used to make population-wide projections of cessation.This is often true but irrelevant.Results of RCTs rebut the claim (still being made in Australia…
Could vaping help lower smoking rates in Australia
In this brief article, we review the evidence on whether easier access to vaping could help lower smoking rates in Australia. To make a convincing case for vaping the following conditions need to be met: that vaping assists in smoking cessation; that the prevalence of vaping is high enough to produce measurable effects at a population level; and that the decline in smoking prevalence is slower in countries where vaping is less common. The evidenc…
Changes in Smoking and Vaping over 18 Months among Smokers and Recent Ex-Smokers
This descriptive study of smokers (smoked at least monthly) and recent ex-smokers (quit for ≤2 years) examined transitions over an 18 month period in their smoking and vaping behaviors. Data are from Waves 1 (W1: 2016) and 2 (W2: 2018) of the ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey, a cohort study of adult (≥18+) smokers, concurrent users (smoke and vape), and recent ex-smokers from Australia, Canada, England, and the United States (US). Respo…
The association of smoking with perception of income inequality, relative material well-being, and social capital
Impact of Behavioral Intention on Effectiveness of Message Features Evidence From the Family Sun Safety Project
The effectiveness of messages with different logical styles might change, regardless of factual content, depending on receiver intent to practice prevention. Predictions based on reactance theory, postdecisional regret, and language expectancy theory were tested in a study altering logical style (inductive versus deductive) and language intensity in messages to parents advocating family sun safety. A prediction that deductively formatted messages…
Path analysis of warning label effects on negative emotions and quit attempts
Negative emotions elicited by warnings encourage behavior change, promoting attention to warnings and behavioral responses that positively predict quit attempts
Using Cognitive Interviewing and Behavioral Coding to Determine Measurement Equivalence across Linguistic and Cultural Groups
This study examined and compared results from two questionnaire pretesting methods (i.e., behavioral coding and cognitive interviewing [CI]) to assess systematic measurement bias in survey questions for adult smokers across six countries (United States, Australia, Uruguay, Mexico, Malaysia, and Thailand). Protocol development and translation involved multiple bilingual partners in each linguistic/cultural group. The study was conducted with conve…
An Actor-Network Theory Analysis of Policy Innovation for Smoke-Free Places
Complex, transnational issues like the tobacco epidemic are major challenges that defy analysis and management by conventional methods, as are other public health issues, such as those associated with global food distribution and climate change. We examined the evolution of indoor smoke-free regulations, a tobacco control policy innovation, and identified the key attributes of those jurisdictions that successfully pursued this innovation and thos…
Youth Culture and Smoking
This article assesses four theoretical models proposed to predict future smoking. Young adults were surveyed at three six-month intervals, the first occurring three months after leaving school. Models 1 and 2 were versions of theory of triadic influence (TTI), which links a person's behavioural experience and cognitions to their future behaviour. Model 1 did not fit the data; the fit of model 2 was just adequate. Model 3 combined TTI and self-cat…
Interpersonal communication about pictorial health warnings on cigarette packages
This study evaluated the relationship between interpersonal communication about cigarette health warning labels (HWLs), psychological responses to HWLs, and smoking cessation attempts. Data were analyzed from online consumer panels of adult smokers in Australia, Canada and Mexico, during implementation of new pictorial health warning labels (HWLs) on cigarette packs. Approximately 1000 adult smokers were surveyed in each country every four months…
Changing the Tobacco Use Management System
Managing “wicked” issues like the tobacco epidemic is addressed using a combination of Open Systems Thinking (OST) and Actor–Network Theory (ANT). OST was used to construct a model of the tobacco problem as a management system acting in a broader environment. This highlighted several problems with the current system but provided no mechanism for reform. ANT, the “sociology of translation,” was used for understanding how change occurs. Unlike syst…
Adult smokers' perception of the role of religion and religious leadership on smoking and association with quitting
The Tobacco Use Management System
We use systems thinking to develop a strategic framework for analyzing the tobacco problem and we suggest solutions. Humans are vulnerable to nicotine addiction, and the most marketable form of nicotine delivery is the most harmful. A tobacco use management system has evolved out of governments’ attempts to regulate tobacco marketing and use and to support services that provide information about tobacco's harms and discourage its use. Our analysi…
Predictors of sun protection among adolescents at the beach
Many adolescents are at risk of skin cancer later in life because they spend long periods outdoors, especially during summer. This study observed and surveyed adolescents (aged 15-20 years) at the beach in summer, to determine predictors of sun protection behaviour in a high-risk situation. Adolescent attitudes toward tanning and beliefs about skin cancer formed the basis of questioning. It was found that most adolescents had inadequate levels of…
Regulatory influences on health-related behaviours
Recent community-wide health-promotion campaigns in Australia and other industrialised countries have been concerned with reducing cardiovascular disease and cancer risk, and have focused on such behaviours as cigarette smoking, dietary choices, and exercising. Psychological research on the modification of health-related behaviours has largely been concerned with individual learning and behaviour-change processes, emphasising an implicit sequence…
Encoding and retrieval processes in memory for prose
The present study was concerned with an exploration of the relative influence of encoding and retrieval effects in memory for discourse. Memory for a passage of prose read under either of two experimenter‐provided perspectives was tested using recognition memory, and both total recall and selective recall, to the reading perspective as well as to the alternative perspective. The results show a small recognition effect for importance at reading an…
Regulatory influences on health-related behaviours
Recent community-wide health-promotion campaigns in Australia and other industrialised countries have been concerned with reducing cardiovascular disease and cancer risk, and have focused on such behaviours as cigarette smoking, dietary choices, and exercising. Psychological research on the modification of health-related behaviours has largely been concerned with individual learning and behaviour-change processes, emphasising an implicit sequence…
Occasional smoking among adults
Are attitudes towards smoking different for males and females
Correspondence to: Dr Val Clarke Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Anti Cancer Council of Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton South, Victoria, 3053, Australia Abstract Objective To examine whether men and women have similar or different attitudes to smoking with regard to the illnesses caused by smoking and conditions (eg, stress) thought to be helped by smoking, advantages and disadvantages of giving up smoking, the effects of smoking…
Population estimates of occasional smoking among self-described smokers and non-smokers in Victoria, Australia
Population estimates of occasional smoking among self-described smokers and non-smokers in Victoria, Australia
School structural and policy variables associated with student smoking
School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia 3217 V Clarke Abstract Objective -To assess the relationships between school structural and smoking policy variables and students' self-re ported smoking. Design Questionnaire data relating to schools were collected from teachers and data relating to self-reported smoking were collected from students. Setting Australian secondary schools. Participants One teacher from each of 3…
Predictors of sun protection among adolescents at the beach
Many adolescents are at risk of skin cancer later in life because they spend long periods outdoors, especially during summer. This study observed and surveyed adolescents (aged 15-20 years) at the beach in summer, to determine predictors of sun protection behaviour in a high-risk situation. Adolescent attitudes toward tanning and beliefs about skin cancer formed the basis of questioning. It was found that most adolescents had inadequate levels of…
Delayed compensatory cigarette consumption after a workplace smoking ban
Reductions in cigarette consumption among smokers frequently seen after implementation of a worksite smoking ban may diminish over time. This effect is more likely to occur when the initial response to a smoking ban is a large reduction in cigarette consumption
Instability in smoking patterns among school leavers in Victoria, Australia
There is considerable flux in smoking patterns among young adults after leaving school, suggesting an opportunity to intervene with smoking prevention programmes at this stage of development
Impact of Behavioral Intention on Effectiveness of Message Features Evidence From the Family Sun Safety Project
The effectiveness of messages with different logical styles might change, regardless of factual content, depending on receiver intent to practice prevention. Predictions based on reactance theory, postdecisional regret, and language expectancy theory were tested in a study altering logical style (inductive versus deductive) and language intensity in messages to parents advocating family sun safety. A prediction that deductively formatted messages…
Trends in environmental tobacco smoke restrictions in the home in Victoria, Australia
The results indicate a strong move towards homes and towards protecting children from smoke. Efforts to support and facilitate this social change should be further encouraged
Public reaction to the portrayal of the tobacco industry in the film The Insider
Results of this study suggest that if people were recurrently exposed to anti-tobacco content in movies there is potential for a more substantial and lasting impact on attitudes toward the tobacco industry and smoking
Australia
Over 20 years ago, Ernest Pepples, a Brown & Williamson lawyer, dared put the unmentionable to paper—the possibility that the industry might be held criminally liable for its conduct. He wrote: “If we admit that smoking is harmful to heavy smokers, do we not admit that BAT has killed a lot of people each year for a very long time? Moreover, if the evidence we have today is not significantly different from the evidence we had five years ago, might…
Socially cued smoking in bars, nightclubs, and gaming venues
These findings suggest that bans on smoking in bars, nightclubs, and gaming venues could reduce cigarette consumption and increase quitting among smokers who frequently patronise these settings. These beneficial effects are likely to be strongest among younger smokers
Continuous tracking of the Australian National Tobacco Campaign
Advertisements with clear figure ground executional formats and those illustrating health effects of smoking have high memorability. Future campaigns that are continuously tracked are recommended to systematically vary media weight, flighting schedules, and advertisement type, so as to maximise information about these variables and their interactions
A strategy for controlling the marketing of tobacco products
The overall effect of such a model, which we call a "regulated market model", would be to eliminate most of the incentives and remaining opportunities for commercial promotion of tobacco and to create incentives to encourage the development of less harmful tobacco products. Such a model preserves the competition inherent in a free market, but directs it towards the challenge of reducing the harm from tobacco use
Understanding how mass media campaigns impact on smokers
The results show increased frequency of negative thoughts about smoking and an increase in quitting related thoughts and actions following onset of the NTC campaign. There was also evidence of sustained increase in cessation activity for a month following onset of the campaign. This all occurred in the context of considerable naturally occurring smoking cessation activity, suggesting that the challenge of campaigns in Australia is to induce progr…
Understanding factors that influence smoking uptake
There is promise in differentiating subgroups among the never, past and current use of cigarettes. Susceptibility within each of these groups was associated with similar patterns of attitudes and social context. These patterns in smoking uptake need to be confirmed prospectively
Smoking and financial stress
Given data were cross sectional, firm conclusions cannot be drawn about the causal relationship between smoking and financial stress. It is likely that they both affect each other. Undoubtedly, expenditure on tobacco will reduce available funds that could otherwise be used to ameliorate financial stress
Youth Culture and Smoking
This article assesses four theoretical models proposed to predict future smoking. Young adults were surveyed at three six-month intervals, the first occurring three months after leaving school. Models 1 and 2 were versions of theory of triadic influence (TTI), which links a person's behavioural experience and cognitions to their future behaviour. Model 1 did not fit the data; the fit of model 2 was just adequate. Model 3 combined TTI and self-cat…
Is household smoking status associated with expenditure on food at restaurants, alcohol, gambling and insurance? Results from the 1998–99 Household Expenditure Survey, Australia
The study suggests that smokers are more likely to engage in risky behaviour. Implementing smoking bans in licensed premises and gambling venues can provide an opportunity to reduce smoking prevalence. Quitting or cutting down smoking can provide opportunities for expenditure on other products or services, and enhance standards of living
Tobacco Denormalization and Industry Beliefs Among Smokers from Four Countries
Prevalence and attributes of roll-your-own smokers in the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey
Patterns of RYO use vary considerably across Australia, Canada, the USA, and the UK. RYO smokers are a heterogeneous group; however, the factors associated with RYO use appear to be the same across the four countries studied
Effects of the 2003 advertising/promotion ban in the United Kingdom on awareness of tobacco marketing
The UK policy to ban tobacco advertising and promotion has significantly reduced exposure to pro-tobacco marketing influences. These findings support the effectiveness of comprehensive bans on advertising and promotion, as included in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Socioeconomic variations in nicotine dependence, self-efficacy, and intention to quit across four countries
To the extent that lower SES smokers are more addicted, they are likely to need more intensive support if they are to be successful in their attempts to quit. Given their lower incomes, this places a special responsibility on government to provide or subsidise such services. This should include access to the widest possible range of effective pharmacotherapies complemented with evidence based counselling and support
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