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Support for policies to prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes and all tobacco products among adults, 2021
Al-Shawaf M , Grooms KN , Mahoney M , Buchanan Lunsford N , Lawrence Kittner D . Prev Chronic Dis 2023 20 E05 This study assessed support for commercial tobacco retail policies among adults. Data came from SpringStyles 2021, a web panel survey of adults in the US aged 18 years or older (N = 6,455). Overall, 62.3% of adults supported a policy prohibiting the sale of menthol cigarettes, and 57.3% supported a policy prohibiting the sale of all tobacco products. A majority of adults supported tobacco retail policies aimed at preventing initiation, promoting quitting, and reducing tobacco-related disparities. These findings can help inform federal, state, and local efforts to prohibit the sale of tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes. |
Chemical Composition of JUUL Pods Collected From Students in California High Schools
Shamout M , Wang P , Wong F , Chen W , Kumagai K , Pérez JJ , Watson CH , Valentín-Blasini L , Tanz L , Herzig C , Oakley LP , Peak CM , Heinzerling A , Williams RJ , Hess C , Wang C , Planche S , Al-Shawaf M , Melstrom P , Marynak K , Tynan MA , Agaku IT , King BA . J Adolesc Health 2021 69 (2) 342-345 PURPOSE: To examine the chemical composition of JUUL pods collected from a convenience sample of 16 high schools in California to identify possible consumer modification or counterfeit use. METHODS: Using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, we quantitatively analyzed the nicotine, propylene glycol (PG), and vegetable glycerin (VG) in JUUL pods (n = 26) collected from California high schools and compared results to commercial 3% (n = 15) and 5% (n = 24) JUUL pods purchased online. RESULTS: Most of the collected JUUL pods (24/26 pods) had a nicotine concentration (43.3 mg/ml, 95% PI: 21.5-65.1) outside the prediction intervals (PI) of the 3% (33.5 mg/ml, 95% PI: 31.8-35.2) and 5% (55.0 mg/ml, 95% PI: 51.5-58.3) commercial JUUL pods. Most (73%) collected JUUL pods had VG concentrations (583.5 mg/ml, PI: 428.9-738.1) lower than the 3% (722.2 mg/ml, PI: 643.0-801.4) and 5% (710.5 mg/ml, PI: 653.1-767.8) commercial JUUL pods. CONCLUSIONS: Used JUUL products collected from high school students or found on school grounds were not chemically consistent with the manufacturer's stated formulations. |
Notes from the field: Characteristics of e-cigarette, or vaping, products confiscated in public high schools in California and North Carolina - March and May 2019
Shamout M , Tanz L , Herzig C , Oakley LP , Peak CM , Heinzerling A , Hast M , McGowan E , Williams RJ , Hess C , Wang C , Planche S , Herndon S , Martin J , Kansagra SM , Al-Shawaf M , Melstrom P , Marynak K , Tynan MA , Agaku IT , King BA . MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2020 69 (42) 1552-1554 E-cigarette, or vaping, products are electronic devices that produce an inhalable aerosol by heating an e-liquid that typically contains nicotine and other additives (1). Nicotine is highly addictive, can harm adolescent brain development, and can prime the brain for addiction to other drugs (1). In 2019, 27.5% of U.S. high school students currently used e-cigarettes (2), and 73.4% of high school students had observed e-cigarette use on school grounds (3). E-cigarette use among U.S. youths increased considerably during 2017–2019 (2). This rise coincided with the increased popularity of “pod mods,” which are products with a prefilled or refillable pod cartridge (pod) and a modifiable (mod) system. Pod mods typically use nicotine salts rather than the freebase nicotine used in most other e-cigarette, or vaping, products and conventional tobacco products (e.g., cigarettes).* Nicotine salts, which have a lower pH than freebase nicotine, allow particularly high levels of nicotine to be inhaled more easily and with less irritation to the throat than freebase nicotine.† The most commonly sold pod mod brand is JUUL, which accounted for 75% of all U.S. e-cigarettes sales by the end of 2018.§ A majority (59.1%) of U.S. high school student e-cigarette users report JUUL is their usual brand (2). |
U.S. adults' attitudes toward lowering nicotine levels in cigarettes
Ali FRM , Al-Shawaf M , Wang TW , King BA . Am J Prev Med 2019 57 (3) 403-407 INTRODUCTION: This study assessed U.S. adults' attitudes toward lowering the nicotine levels in cigarettes to make them less addictive. METHODS: Data from the 2018 SummerStyles, a web-based panel survey of U.S. adults aged >/=18 years (n=4,037) fielded in June-July, were analyzed in 2018. Respondents were asked: Do you favor or oppose requiring cigarette makers to lower the nicotine levels in cigarettes so that they are less addictive? Responses were strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, and strongly oppose. Sociodemographic correlates of favorability (strongly favor or somewhat favor) were assessed using multivariable Poisson regression. RESULTS: Eighty-one percent of adults in 2018 strongly or somewhat favored requiring cigarette makers to lower the nicotine levels in cigarettes to make them less addictive, including 80.6% of current cigarette smokers, 84.3% of former smokers, and 81.3% of never smokers. Favorability was 71.5% among current noncigarette tobacco product users and 81.9% among nonusers. Following adjustment, slight variations in favorability existed by sex, age, race/ethnicity, and other tobacco product use. CONCLUSIONS: Most adults favor requiring cigarette makers to lower the nicotine levels in cigarettes, including 8 in 10 current cigarette smokers. These findings can help inform the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recent proposal to pursue a nicotine reduction standard for cigarettes. |
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