Influence of picture health warnings on the attitudes and intention to quit smoking in middle school students

The potential and advantages of New smokers for the country is not comparable to the loss incurred. As a preventive action, the Ministry of Health published five versions of picture health warnings that circulated in advertisements or on packs of cigarettes. Picture health warnings issued by the health ministry aims as the initial stimulation to prevent the seeds of active smokers and strengthen health awareness in adolescence. Stimuli through visual images are expected to influence the attitudes and intention of adolescents to not smoke. The approach of this research is explanatory research. The type of data in this research is quantitative, while the source of the data used is primary data. The data collection method is by questionnaire. The populations in this study are adolescents aged between 17 - 21 years. The sampling method used is a non-probability sampling method with convenience sampling technique. The data analysis technique used is Univariate ANOVA. Based on the results of the univariate ANOVA test, it can be concluded that there was no significant influence of five versions of picture health warning on the attitudes and intention of adolescents towards smoking.