E-cigarette Marketing Expenditures in the United States From 2016 to 2021: Targeted Media Outlets Geared Toward People Who Are at Increased Risk for Tobacco Use.

Introduction: E-cigarette advertising exposure is linked to e-cigarette initiation and use. Thus, monitoring trends in e-cigarette advertising practices is important to understand e-cigarette use patterns observed over recent years.

Aims And Methods: E-cigarette advertising expenditures (January 2016-July 2021; Numerator Ad Intel) for 154 U.

Closing the loopholes on a flavored cigar ban: Anticipated challenges and solutions.

For the first time since Congress authorized the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate tobacco in 2009, FDA proposed two tobacco product standards on May 4, 2022.

Trends in Rural and Urban Cigarette Smoking Quit Ratios in the US From 2010 to 2020.

This cross-sectional study examines self-reported smoking patterns of adult participants in the US National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).

Tobacco minimum packaging policy to reduce cigarillo use among young people: results of an experimental study.

Objective: The Food and Drug Administration has the authority to set a minimum for cigar pack size, a product feature linked to price. This study examined the effects of cigarillo package size and price on young adults' smoking and purchase intentions.

Design: Young adults (n=1032) 18-30 years old who smoked cigarillos in the past 12 months completed an online 3×2 within-subjects experiment testing the effects of cigarillo pack size (1, 2, 5) and price (actual price, standardised price per stick) on intentions to purchase and smoke cigarillos.

Exploring Definitions of "Addiction" in Adolescents and Young Adults and Correlation with Substance Use Behaviors.

(1) Background: Young people engage in addictive behaviors, but little is known about how they understand addiction. The present study examined how young people describe addiction in their own words and correlations between their definitions and substance use behaviors. (2) Methods: Young adults (n = 1146) in the PACE Vermont Study responded to an open-ended item “what does “addiction” mean?” in 2019.

A synthesis of local cigar pack policies in the US.

Communities have adopted cigar pack policies to eliminate inexpensive, small packs from being sold and reduce youth use. Still, it is unclear how widespread these policies are and whether they differ based on specific policy components. This study identified and measured local cigar pack size and price policies in the US.

Lung Cancer Screening Knowledge and Perceived Barriers Among Physicians in the United States.

Introduction: Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and has historically been detected late in its course. Low-dose computed tomography scan (LDCT) reduces lung cancer mortality by 20% and is currently recommended by clinical practice guidelines. However, compared with other cancer screening modalities, LDCT utilization remains low.

Tobacco Treatment Knowledge and Practices Among US Psychiatrists.

This study explores the extent to which psychiatrists are familiar with, and utilize, the USPHS guidelines for treating tobacco use and dependence (i.e., the 5A's), deliver cessation treatment, and the barriers they perceive to doing so.

Disparities in Tobacco Use by Disability and Type: Findings From the 2019 National Health Interview Survey.

Introduction: People with disabilities report a higher prevalence of cigarette use than people without disabilities. However, evidence is limited on the relationships between disability type, degree of functional difficulty, and other tobacco product use.

Methods: Data from the 2019 U.

Perceptions of Game cigarillo packaging among young adult tobacco users: The effect of package color and the "natural leaf" descriptor.

Introduction: Tobacco packaging elements have been shown to influence product perceptions and use intentions. Garcia y Vega's Game cigarillos are distinct from other brands in their use of "natural leaf" on packaging. The term "natural" has been linked to misperceptions about lower risk in the context of cigarettes.

Tobacco Use, Dependence, and Age of Initiation among Youths with Cognitive Disability.

Objectives: To examine the prevalence of tobacco use by product type among youths with cognitive disability; the prevalence of tobacco dependence among youths with cognitive disability; and the relationship between age of tobacco use initiation and cognitive disability.

Study Design: This cross-sectional study analyzed data from the 2019 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS). Participants were a nationally representative sample of 19 018 students in grades 6-12.

Impact of Canada's menthol cigarette ban on quitting among menthol smokers: pooled analysis of pre-post evaluation from the ITC Project and the Ontario Menthol Ban Study and projections of impact in the USA.

Introduction: Between 2015 and 2018, Canada banned menthol cigarettes. This study pooled data from two pre-post cohort studies (the Ontario Menthol Ban Study, and the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation (ITC) Canada Survey, conducted in seven provinces) to derive more precise estimates of the impact of Canada's menthol ban on quitting and to apply these estimates to project the impact of a menthol ban in the USA.

Methods: Weighted multivariable logistic analyses compared post-ban quit success of menthol smokers with non-menthol smokers (for daily smokers and for all (daily + non-daily) smokers), controlling for sex, age, ethnicity, education, baseline smoking status, baseline cigarettes per day and study regions.

Communication Between US Physicians and Patients Regarding Electronic Cigarette Use.

Importance: Physicians play a primary role in patient smoking cessation, yet their communication regarding e-cigarettes is not well understood.

Objective: To assess physician-patient communication regarding e-cigarettes.

Design, Setting, And Participants: A national cross-sectional survey in 2018 and 2019 was conducted.

The importance of cigarillo product characteristics among young adult cigarillo users: Differences by demographics, cigarillo use and other tobacco/substance use behaviors.

Introduction: Cigar products, including cigarillos, have increased in popularity in the U.S. and are disproportionately used by young adults.

Cigar Warning Noticing and Demographic and Usage Correlates: Analysis from the United States Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study, Wave 5.

Although cigars pose health risks similar to cigarettes, their packaging/marketing is not subject to commensurate regulation in the US. In a 2000 agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, seven major manufacturers agreed to use some form of cigar warning. In 2016, the Food and Drug Administration passed a rule requiring larger standardized warnings, but the requirement was successfully challenged in court.

Packaging Characteristics of Top-Selling Cigars in the United States, 2018.

Introduction: Tobacco product packaging is an influential industry marketing tool, but research on cigar packaging characteristics is limited. This study leveraged a pack archive of the top-selling, mass-market cigar products in the US and their corresponding sales data to assess the prevalence of common pack features in the marketplace.

Methods: The 50 cigar products with the highest national unit sales in 2018 were identified using Nielsen's Scantrack data.

Construct validity of the Cigarette Ratings Scale and associations with tobacco use and product feature outcomes.

Background: Subjective ratings are inconsistently associated with behavioral outcomes such as tobacco use and there is no current standard. The Cigarette Ratings Scale is an ideal measure for further evaluation because it has been widely used in tobacco regulatory science and tobacco industry research.

Purpose: This study investigated the construct validity of the Cigarette Ratings Scale and associations with tobacco use and product feature outcomes.

Validity of a little cigars/cigarillos purchase task in dual users of cigars and cigarettes.

Introduction: Hypothetical purchase tasks have been widely used to assess the reinforcing value of tobacco products. However, a task has not yet been validated for little cigars and cigarillos (LCCs), a popular tobacco product class among vulnerable populations. This study sought to validate the LCC Purchase Task (LCCPT) in a sample of experienced LCC smokers.

Nicotine pouch product awareness, interest and ever use among US adults who smoke, 2021.

Background: Tobacco-free nicotine pouches are one of the fastest growing tobacco product categories in the US market. However, data on awareness, appeal or ever use of these products in the USA are limited.

Methods: We surveyed a population-based sample of US adults who smoked (n=1018) between January and February 2021 about awareness, ever use of or interest in nicotine pouches.

Trends in Overall and Menthol Market Shares of Leading Cigarette Brands in the USA: 2014-2019.

Many factors can shift cigarette brand preference, and surveillance is an important tactic to inform regulatory strategy. The objective of this study was to identify shifts in top brands' overall and menthol market share from 2014 to 2019. We used data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health public use datasets, which are a nationally representative, cross-sectional survey of people aged 12+ in the USA.