“…annoyance at or deliberately not engaging with the HWL) ( Maynard et al, 2014 ; McCloud, Okechukwu, Sorensen, & Viswanath, 2017 ), although these behaviours do not necessarily interfere with quitting behaviours ( Brewer et al, 2019 ; Cho et al, 2016 ). HWLs placed on alcoholic beverages that include shocking or explicit pictures are rated as more effective than those with less severe pictures ( Maynard, Gove, Skinner, & Munafò, 2018 ), but have been shown to increase reactance and avoidance behaviours ( Sillero-Rejon et al, 2018 ) and may be less acceptable ( Clarke et al, 2020b ; Pechey et al, 2020 ). Initial studies suggest that text-only HWLs on SSBs ( Roberto, Wong, Musicus, & Hammond, 2016 ) and image-and-text HWLs on energy-dense snacks are generally accepted ( Pechey et al, 2020 ).…”