Not-so-disposable e-cigarettes: Methods young people use to discard single-use e-cigarettes.

Background And Aims: To date, most tobacco product waste research focuses on cigarettes. Less is known about single-use 'disposable' e-cigarette waste, which contains several hazardous and toxic materials. This exploratory study examines self-reported methods for discarding disposables among a national sample of US adolescents and young adults.

Illuminating a Path Forward for Tobacco Nation: Projected Impacts of Recommended Policies on Geographic Disparities.

Introduction: This study quantifies the impacts of strengthening 2 tobacco control policies in "Tobacco Nation," a region of the United States (U.S.) with persistently higher smoking rates and weaker tobacco control policies than the rest of the US, despite high levels of support for tobacco control policies.

Youth E-Cigarette Initiation After the Food and Drug Administration's Missed Deadline.

Introduction: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was ordered to evaluate electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products by September 9, 2021, but missed the court-ordered deadline.

Examining the Comprehensiveness of Amended Flavored Tobacco Product Sales Restrictions.

Context: Flavored tobacco products contribute significantly to youth tobacco initiation and tobacco use disparities. In the last decade, 362 jurisdictions have enacted policies restricting the sale of flavored tobacco products; however, many policies are not fully comprehensive due to menthol and adult-only retailer exemptions. Although several of these restrictions have been amended since their original passage, to date, little is known about how amendments have affected policy comprehensiveness.

E-cigarette Device Type, Source, and Use Behaviors of Youth and Young Adults: Findings from the Truth Longitudinal Cohort (2020-2021).

E-cigarette device types vary in the amount of nicotine delivered to users. Given that youth and young adults are using pod-based and disposable e-cigarettes with high nicotine concentrations, it is important to determine how e-cigarette use behaviors associated with nicotine dependence may differ across e-cigarette device type. Baseline information was collected from September 2020 to March 2021 and follow-up information was collected from July to October 2021 from the Truth Longitudinal Cohort.

Underage Youth Continue to Obtain E-Cigarettes from Retail Sources in 2022: Evidence from the Truth Continuous Tracking Survey.

(1) Background: This study aims to describe the primary sources of e-cigarettes among young people and to explore how these sources may differ by individual-level characteristics. (2) Methods: Data were obtained from a cross-sectional, continuous tracking survey of participants. The analytic sample includes current e-cigarette users (aged 15-20 years) surveyed from January to August 2022 (N = 1296).

Measuring the impact of state and local Tobacco 21 policies in the United States: A longitudinal study of youth and young adults ages 15-21.

Introduction: Tobacco 21 (T21) policies, which prohibit tobacco sales to individuals under 21, aim to reduce youth tobacco use by limiting youth access to these products. Little, however, is known about the longitudinal effect of T21 policies on youth tobacco use behaviors at the national level.

Methods: Participants aged 15-21 years from a longitudinal study conducted between May 2014 and May 2019 (n = 13,990) were matched to geocoded T21 policies.

E-cigarette school policy and staff training: Knowledge and school policy experiences with e-cigarette products among a national sample of US middle and high school staff.

Background: As youth e-cigarette use has surged in the last several years, teachers and school administrators have reported challenges addressing student use of emerging e-cigarette products on school property. While federal policy prohibits smoking in U.S.

Policy Support for Smoke-Free and E-Cigarette Free Multiunit Housing.

Purpose: Estimate public support for prohibiting multiunit housing (MUH) e-cigarette and cigarette use.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Data from an online panel survey.

Menthol e-cigarette sales rise following 2020 FDA guidance.

Objective: To explore patterns in flavoured e-cigarette sales following Juul Labs' 2019 removal of mint-flavoured products and the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) 2020 e-cigarette flavour guidance which prohibits flavoured cartridge-based sales, but allows for the sale of tobacco-flavoured and menthol-flavoured cartridges, open-system and disposable e-cigarettes.

Methods: We examined Nielsen Retail Scanner data from September 2013 to March 2020. Inflation-adjusted sales dollars for e-liquid-containing products were classified into five flavour categories (fruit, menthol, mint, tobacco and other).

E-cigarette Tobacco Retail Licensing Laws: Variance Across US States as of January 1, 2020.

To describe how US states and the District of Columbia regulate e-cigarette sales by examining e-cigarette-specific tobacco retail licensing (TRL) laws. We coded 25 state-level e-cigarette TRL laws (effective as of January 1, 2020) for provisions we labeled as either "core" (e.g.

Smokers' behavioral intentions in response to a low-nicotine cigarette policy.

Introduction: Evidence suggests that reducing the nicotine concentration in cigarettes to sub-addictive levels would reduce use. Until a low-nicotine cigarette policy is enacted, population-level effects are unknown. This study examines the behavioral intentions of current U.

JUUL in School: Teacher and Administrator Awareness and Policies of E-Cigarettes and JUUL in U.S. Middle and High Schools.

Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use, including JUUL, has risen to epidemic levels among high school and middle school students in the United States. Schools serve as a key environment for prevention and intervention efforts to address e-cigarette use, yet little is known about the awareness of and response to e-cigarettes in schools. This national survey of middle and high school teachers and administrators ( = 1,420) measured JUUL awareness, e-cigarette policies, and barriers to enforcement in schools.