Multielemental Analysis of Tobacco Plant and Tobacco Products by TXRF

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 ...

Receptivity to Tobacco Advertising and Susceptibility to Tobacco Products.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Non-cigarette tobacco marketing is less regulated and may promote cigarette smoking among adolescents. We quantified receptivity to advertising for multiple tobacco products and hypothesized associations with susceptibility to cigarette smoking. METHODS Wave 1 of the nationally representative PATH (Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health) study interviewed 10 751...

Assessment of tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines in tobacco products.

lengthy enrichment procedures in earlier studies. The highly sensitive and specific TEA (7) simplifies the quantitative deter mination of nitrosamines, in that these nonvolatile compounds need only be concentrated once prior to separation by HPLC and detection. For an accurate measurement of these nitrosamines in chew ing tobacco, tobacco leaves, and unaged smoke, extraction procedures as well ...

The taxation of tobacco products

This chapter reviews a variety of issues related to the taxation of cigarettes and other tobacco products. The empirical evidence showing that higher cigarette taxes result in higher cigarette prices is reviewed. This is followed by a discussion of the econometric literature examining the impact of prices and taxes on the demands for tobacco products. The small but growing body of research for ...

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