Jennifer Mendel Sheldon

Biographic Data

ID3576170
NAMEJennifer Mendel Sheldon
GIVEN NAMESJennifer Mendel
FAMILY NAMESheldon
SIGNATURESHELDON J M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ORCID0000-0002-2499-2871
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Menthol flavour enhancer use and willingness to buy under a menthol cigarette ban

    Mayank Sakhuja, Shayna Farris et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2026

    Interest in menthol enhancers was high among people who smoke menthol cigarettes, which could undermine the intended public health benefits of menthol cigarette bans. Policies to address menthol flavour enhancers, combined with surveillance and cessation support, may be important to the success of menthol bans

  • Optimising messages and images for e-cigarette warnings

    Allison J Lazard, Mohammad Ebrahimi Kalan et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2023

    Vaping warning policies should communicate a broader range of hazards and harms, beyond addiction, to potentially increase awareness of health harms. Images of internal harm or people experiencing harms may be particularly effective at discouraging vaping

  • Terms tobacco users employ to describe e-cigarette aerosol

    Mohammad Ebrahimi Kalan, Allison J Lazard et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2022

    The public rarely uses the term 'aerosol' to describe e-cigarette output, potentially complicating educational efforts that use the term. Future studies should explore public knowledge and understanding of the terms 'aerosol' and the more popular 'vapor' to better inform vaping risk communication

  • Using a Naturalistic Store Laboratory for Clinical Trials of Point-of-Sale Nutrition Policies and Interventions

    Open AccessMarissa G Hall, Isabella C A Higgins et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Point-of-sale policies such as warnings and taxes are promising tools for improving the nutritional quality of food purchases. Research studies conducted in naturalistic store laboratories could improve the quality of evidence about point-of-sale interventions by allowing for realistic exposure in a controlled setting. This study aimed to assess whether purchasing behavior in a naturalistic store laboratory setting was similar to real-life purcha…

  • Development of the UNC Perceived Message Effectiveness Scale for Youth

    Open AccessSeth M Noar, Nisha Gottfredson O''Shea et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2021

    The University of North Carolina PME Scale for Youth is a reliable and valid measure of the potential effectiveness of vaping and smoking prevention ads. Employing PME scales during message development and selection may help youth tobacco prevention campaigns deploy more effective ads

  • Awareness of and reactions to the health harms of sugary drinks

    Open AccessAlexandra Carl, Alexandra E Carl et al.ARTICLEAppetite2021References: 50

  • Reactions to messages about smoking, vaping and Covid-19

    Open AccessAnna H Grummon, Marissa G Hall et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2020

    Messages linking smoking with COVID-19 may hold promise for discouraging smoking and may have the added benefit of also discouraging vaping

  • Impact of e-cigarette health warnings on motivation to vape and smoke

    Noel T Brewer, Mijin Jeong et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2019

    E-cigarette health warnings may motivate users to quit vaping and discourage smoking. The most promising warnings include health hazards (other than nicotine addiction) and imagery. We found no support for the hypothesis that e-cigarette warnings could encourage smoking cigarettes

  • Placing Health Warnings on E-Cigarettes

    Open AccessJennifer R Mendel, Jennifer Mendel Sheldon et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    Health warnings for e-cigarettes are a promising and novel tobacco control intervention for reducing e-cigarette use. We developed a new protocol for evaluating e-cigarette warnings by placing them on users' own devices to reflect real-world exposure. Study 1 participants were a national convenience sample of 606 U.S. adult e-cigarette users surveyed online in March 2017. Most Study 1 participants were willing to have their e-cigarette devices (8…

  • Cigarette pack messages about toxic chemicals

    Open AccessNoel T Brewer, Mijin Jeong et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2018

    NCT02785484

  • Why smokers avoid cigarette pack risk messages

    Open AccessMarissa G Hall, Jennifer R Mendel et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2018Cited by: 4References: 52

  • Public understanding of cigarette smoke constituents

    Noel T Brewer, Jennifer C Morgan et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2016

    Many people were unaware that burning the cigarette is the primary source of toxic constituents in cigarette smoke. Constituents that may most discourage cigarette smoking have familiar names, like arsenic and formaldehyde and do not start with a number or end in ene/ine. Our findings may help campaign designers develop constituent messages that discourage smoking

  • Predicting Young Adulthood Smoking Among Adolescent Smokers and Nonsmokers

    Jennifer R Mendel, Jennifer Mendel Sheldon et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Health Behavior2012

    Distinct factors predict smoking initiation versus maintenance among young adults