Table 2.

Focus group themes concerning Ohio’s smoke-free law and cigarette warning labels

Tobacco- related policy	Theme	Quote
Smoke-free law	Support from non-smokers	“I like that when I go to a store or when I go to a restaurant and it's nonsmoking.”
	Opposition from smokers	“Oh, a lot of them smoke and they’re like you aren’t going to tell me I can’t smoke a cigarette.”
	Law generally being enforced and abided by	“Oh, they grumble. No one is defying the law, I don’t think, but they’re not happy with it.”
Cigarette warning labels	Support the addition of graphic warning labels to US cigarette packages	“It would be great. I think they should do it.”
	Potential to prevent smoking initiation (particularly among adolescents)	“I didn’t see these pictures when I was 12 years old and started [smoking]. If I would have saw those, I would have probably never touched one.”
	Labels stressing the negative aesthetic effects of smoking may be more effective	“I mean especially the teeth. If you are going to deter a younger kid, like I don’t want my mouth to look like that.”
	Potentially less effective in promoting smoking cessation	“But if you are talking about the ones who have been doing it [smoking] for years and years the likeliness is it is not going to deter them.”

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