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. 2015 Jul;24(4):389-94.
doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-051408. Epub 2014 Apr 10.

Preference for flavoured cigar brands among youth, young adults and adults in the USA

Cristine D Delnevo  1 , Daniel P Giovenco  1 , Bridget K Ambrose  2 , Catherine G Corey  2 , Kevin P Conway  3
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Preference for flavoured cigar brands among youth, young adults and adults in the USA

Cristine D Delnevo et al. Tob Control. 2015 Jul.

Abstract

Background: While cigarette consumption in the USA continues to decline, cigar consumption has increased. Tobacco-trade publications suggest that flavoured cigars are driving the recent growth in cigar consumption. Limited survey data exist to explore flavoured cigar preferences among youth and adults.

Methods: This study used the 2010-2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) and Nielsen market scanner data. The NSDUH sample consisted of 6678 past 30-day cigar smokers who reported smoking a usual brand of cigars. NSDUH contains a measure on usual cigar brand smoked and was merged with Nielsen data to estimate the per cent of each cigar brand's market share that is flavoured.

Results: Multivariate analyses indicate that youth, young adults, females, blacks, cigarette smokers, blunt users and daily cigar smokers are significantly more likely to report a usual cigar brand that is flavoured. Preference for a usual brand that produces flavoured cigars decreases significantly with age.

Conclusions: This study finds recent growth in flavoured cigar consumption and preference among youth and young adults for cigar brands that are flavoured. These findings underscore the need to expand monitoring of product attributes as well as individual-level cigar use behaviours captured through population surveillance.

Keywords: Non-cigarette tobacco products; Surveillance and monitoring; Tobacco industry.

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