Are tobacco products drugs? Evidence from US Tobacco

Federal regulation of tobacco products and products that treat tobacco dependence: are the playing fields level?

Tobacco-specific nitrosamines in new tobacco products.

New tobacco products, designed to attract consumers who are concerned about the health effects of tobacco, have been appearing on the market. Objective evaluation of these products requires, as a first step, data on their potentially toxic constituents. Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) are an important class of carcinogens in tobacco products, but virtually no data were available on their ...

US consumer interest in non-cigarette tobacco products spikes around the 2009 federal tobacco tax increase.

OBJECTIVES This quasi-experimental longitudinal study monitored aggregate Google search queries as a proxy for consumer interest in non-cigarette tobacco products (NTP) around the time of the 2009 US federal tobacco tax increase. METHODS Query trends for searches mentioning common NTP were downloaded from Google's public archives. The mean relative increase was estimated by comparing the obse...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in US and Swedish smokeless tobacco products

BACKGROUND Debate about the health implications of using smokeless tobacco products (STPs) has prompted considerable interest in characterising their levels of toxic and carcinogenic components. In the present study seventy smokeless tobacco products from the US and Sweden, categorized as chewing tobacco, dry and moist snuff, hard and soft pellets, plug, and loose and portion snus, were analyse...

The impact of anti-tobacco industry prevention messages in tobacco producing regions: evidence from the US truth campaign.

BACKGROUND Adolescents who live in tobacco producing regions may not respond favourably to anti-industry ads. OBJECTIVE To examine whether state level involvement in tobacco production appears to limit the effectiveness of anti-industry ads to prevent tobacco use among adolescents in the USA. DESIGN Time trend analyses were done using repeated cross sectional data from six waves of the Lega...