Plant-based menthol cigarettes? Food industry trends and farm-to-pack cigarette advertising.
Published in Tobacco control
Effects of menthol use and transitions in use on short-term and long-term cessation from cigarettes among US smokers.
Published in Tobacco control
To estimate the effect of menthol use and transitions in use (switching to or from menthol) on short-term and long-term cessation from cigarette smoking and whether this differed across demographic groups (age, sex, race). We compared the probability of 30+ day and 12-month abstinence from cigarette smoking by menthol use status using two cohorts o...
Synthetic nicotine has arrived.
Published in Tobacco control
The introduction of a new product line of the popular disposable electronic cigarette brand Puffbar, advertised as containing synthetic nicotine, has drawn attention to the increasing use of synthetic nicotine in marketed products and its uncertain regulatory status. A search of the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents revealed that the industry consid...
Increase of unmotivated and hardened smokers in Hong Kong: a repeated cross-sectional trend analysis.
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To examine the trends in the prevalence of hardening indicators and hardened smokers in Hong Kong, where the low smoking prevalence has plateaued in the recent decade. This is an analysis of repeated cross-sectional data from 9 territory-wide smoking cessation campaigns conducted annually from 2009 to 2018 (except 2011). Participants were 9837 bioc...
Evaluating the impact of plain packaging among Canadian smokers: findings from the 2018 and 2020 ITC Smoking and Vaping ...
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In February 2020, Canada implemented plain packaging without any changes to the size and content of health warning labels (HWLs), which were last updated in 2012 (pictorial HWLs on 75% of the pack front and back). This pre-post evaluation study assessed the impact of plain packaging in Canada on: (1) pack appeal; (2) HWL effectiveness; and (3) supp...
JUUL releases more nicotine in the first puffs.
Published in Tobacco control
Quasi-experimental evaluation of Kenya's pictorial health warnings versus Zambia's single text-only warning: findings fr...
Published in Tobacco control
Population studies in mostly high-income countries have shown that pictorial health warnings (PHWs) are much more effective than text-only warnings. This is the first quasi-experimental evaluation of the introduction of PHWs in Africa, comparing the change from text-only to PHWs in Kenya to the unchanged text-only health warning in Zambia. Data wer...
Price promotion receipt and use progression of any tobacco, cigarettes, e-cigarettes and cigars among US youth between 2...
Published in Tobacco control
Tobacco price promotions may prompt tobacco trials among youth. We assessed whether receiving price promotions for any tobacco, cigarettes, e-cigarettes and cigars was associated with product use progression. The analysis included a nationally representative sample of youth never tobacco users (aged 12-16; n=9405) from wave 4 (2016-2018) of the Pop...
Responses to pictorial versus text-only cigarillo warnings among a nationally representative sample of US young adults.
Published in Tobacco control
The US Food and Drug Administration requires six text-only warnings for cigar products, including cigarillos. Research has demonstrated the superiority of pictorial over text-only cigarette warnings, yet the relative effectiveness of pictorial warnings for cigarillos has not been examined. We examined the impact of pictorial cigarillo warnings comp...
Exploring the gateway hypothesis of e-cigarettes and tobacco: a prospective replication study among adolescents in the N...
Published in Tobacco control
Studies demonstrated that adolescent e-cigarette use is associated with subsequent tobacco smoking, commonly referred to as the gateway effect. However, most studies only investigated gateways from e-cigarettes to tobacco smoking. This study replicates a cornerstone study revealing a positive association between both adolescent e-cigarette use and ...
