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Mei 31, 2019 2.33pm WIB
The damaging effects of smoking on our health are well known,
and governments are curbing tobacco advertising to reduce the
number of smokers. But, in Indonesia, the number of teens and
adults who smoke continue to grow at a rate higher than any
other country .
A World Health Organisation (WHO) survey of nearly 6,000
respondents found almost 60% of Indonesian teenagers (aged 13-
15) are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke at home, and that
only 24.5% of adult smokers believed smoking tobacco could
cause serious illness.
To increase public awareness of the harmful and deadly effects of
tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure, and to discourage
the use of tobacco in any form, the WHO and global partners
celebrate World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) every year on 31 May .
Indonesia’s Health Ministry has carried out anti-smoking
campaigns to reduce smoking; the latest was launched in 2018.
But the campaign messages are not persuasive enough .
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I argue that designing anti-smoking campaign messages based
on tried and tested health communication theories will make the
messages more powerful.
Problem of anti-smoking campaigns
Anti-smoking campaigns in Indonesia are presented as public
service announcements on national television and digital media.
The Health Ministry launched the latest anti-smoking social
media campaign with the hashtag #SuaraTanpaRokok , which
translates as voices without cigarettes.
From my observation of #SuaraTanpaRokok , the campaign only
focused on attitudes of fear and sadness to indicate disapproval
of smoking and perceived risk of smoking.
The campaign tells stories of people who had cancer due to
smoking, such as Zainal Arifin Nasution , who underwent surgery
for laryngeal cancer, and Ranap Simatupang , who died from
lung cancer. The campaign also shows the risk of smoking
through images of lung disease.
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Persuasive campaign: reasoned action
We need a variety of approaches to designing health messages.
Aside from the type of health campaigns the government
currently uses, which highlight fear and sadness due to risks of
smoking, several social influence theories can be used to develop
compelling messages.
Health communication research has demonstrated that health
messages that challenge people’s perception of social norms are
effective in changing behaviour and in building people’s
confidence to stop smoking.
Health campaigns on cancer, anti-smoking and HIV/AIDS
awareness ofen use the theory of reasoned action developed by
Fishbein and Ajzen (1975) .
This theory assumes that a person who wants and intends to
avoid getting sick will carry out preventive health care. A person’s
intention is influenced by their attitude towards behaviours
relating to preventive health care as well as by how others view
those behaviours.
Based on this theory, persuading someone by targeting their
attitudes and social norms can change their behaviours.
Take anti-smoking advertisements in the US, for instance, where
campaigns ofen provide reasoned arguments or messages
focusing on what other people think about smoking (social
norms) or on individual attitudes toward smoking (personal
attitudes).
In “Addicted Ashtray ”, a girl who is addicted to smoking finds the
cigarette vending machine is out of order. She then takes a half-
smoked cigarette from an ashtray. This type of health message
aims to show that smoking leads to disgusting behaviour.
This approach challenges someone’s attitude towards smoking
because they would not want to associate themselves with the
appalling behaviour presented in the campaign. This could also
make smokers think about how their family and friends view
smoking behaviour.
Anti-smoking advertisements can also attempt to influence
attitudes by providing information about the toxic content of a
cigarette.
Trying to quit
Smoking is addictive, so quitting is difficult for those who are
hooked. Designing campaign messages based on social cognitive
theory might make people who are struggling to quit feel
represented.
Based on this theory, when people see that the message is
directed toward their behaviour, the message gains greater
representational meaning. So anti-smoking campaigns might
provide a story of someone who has quit smoking or is trying to .
Showing benefits of quitting
We can also use the health belief model (HBM) to design anti-
smoking campaigns.
HBM posits that an individual will make behaviour changes by
assessing not only the risks of their behaviour but also barriers
and benefits.
Anti-smoking campaigns can thus also focus on the benefits of
not smoking. For example, the US Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention give a list of health benefits of being smoke-free:
you can enjoy a healthy heart, healthy lungs and lower risks of
cancer and erectile dysfunction.
Indonesia’s anti-smoking campaign still focuses on the severe
harm that smoking causes. Various communication theories exist
and using them to design anti-smoking campaigns can lead to a
more effective variety of messages targeting new and young
smokers.
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Interesting. But also, how to evaluate the effect of anti-smoking campaign? I am
speaking about the impact. A little research, I believe, talk about the impact of its
campaign.
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