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Costs of vaping: evidence from ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey

STUDY OBJECTIVES: To compare the prices paid for nicotine vaping products (NVPs) and supplies among current NVP users to prices paid for cigarettes among current smokers. DATA: The 2016 International Tobacco Control Four Country Vaping and Smoking Survey (4CV1). Key measures included: (1) self-repor...

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Autores principales: Cheng, Kai-Wen, Shang, Ce, Lee, Hye Myung, Chaloupka, Frank J, Fong, Geoffrey T, Borland, Ron, Heckman, Bryan W, Hitchman, Sara C, O'Connor, Richard J, Levy, David T, Cummings, K. Michael
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7507861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32086385
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055344
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author Cheng, Kai-Wen
Shang, Ce
Lee, Hye Myung
Chaloupka, Frank J
Fong, Geoffrey T
Borland, Ron
Heckman, Bryan W
Hitchman, Sara C
O'Connor, Richard J
Levy, David T
Cummings, K. Michael
author_facet Cheng, Kai-Wen
Shang, Ce
Lee, Hye Myung
Chaloupka, Frank J
Fong, Geoffrey T
Borland, Ron
Heckman, Bryan W
Hitchman, Sara C
O'Connor, Richard J
Levy, David T
Cummings, K. Michael
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description STUDY OBJECTIVES: To compare the prices paid for nicotine vaping products (NVPs) and supplies among current NVP users to prices paid for cigarettes among current smokers. DATA: The 2016 International Tobacco Control Four Country Vaping and Smoking Survey (4CV1). Key measures included: (1) self-reported prices paid for reusable NVPs (eg, rechargeable devices with cartridges and tank system devices with e-liquids) in the 3-month period prior to the survey among current NVP users, (2) prices paid for disposable NVPs, cartridges and e-liquids purchased in the last 30 days among current NVP users and (3) self-reported prices paid for cigarettes among current smokers. RESULTS: Disposable NVP price was higher than the price of a comparable unit for combustible cigarettes in England (EN), USA and Canada (CA). Prefilled cartridge price was higher than the price of a comparable unit of cigarettes in USA and CA, but lower in EN and Australia. E-liquid price was consistently lower than the price of a comparable unit of cigarettes across four countries. For start-up costs, price of a rechargeable device is approximately 3–5 times higher than a pack of cigarettes in four countries. CONCLUSION: NVP prices were generally higher than prices of combustible cigarettes, especially the high upfront NVP devices. The high upfront costs of purchasing a reusable NVP may discourage some smokers from switching to vaping. However, the average lower costs of cartridges and e-liquids relative to a package of cigarettes make switching to a NVP an attractive alternative to smoking in the long term so long as smokers switch completely to vaping.
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spelling pubmed-75078612021-01-01 Costs of vaping: evidence from ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey Cheng, Kai-Wen Shang, Ce Lee, Hye Myung Chaloupka, Frank J Fong, Geoffrey T Borland, Ron Heckman, Bryan W Hitchman, Sara C O'Connor, Richard J Levy, David T Cummings, K. Michael Tob Control Original Research STUDY OBJECTIVES: To compare the prices paid for nicotine vaping products (NVPs) and supplies among current NVP users to prices paid for cigarettes among current smokers. DATA: The 2016 International Tobacco Control Four Country Vaping and Smoking Survey (4CV1). Key measures included: (1) self-reported prices paid for reusable NVPs (eg, rechargeable devices with cartridges and tank system devices with e-liquids) in the 3-month period prior to the survey among current NVP users, (2) prices paid for disposable NVPs, cartridges and e-liquids purchased in the last 30 days among current NVP users and (3) self-reported prices paid for cigarettes among current smokers. RESULTS: Disposable NVP price was higher than the price of a comparable unit for combustible cigarettes in England (EN), USA and Canada (CA). Prefilled cartridge price was higher than the price of a comparable unit of cigarettes in USA and CA, but lower in EN and Australia. E-liquid price was consistently lower than the price of a comparable unit of cigarettes across four countries. For start-up costs, price of a rechargeable device is approximately 3–5 times higher than a pack of cigarettes in four countries. CONCLUSION: NVP prices were generally higher than prices of combustible cigarettes, especially the high upfront NVP devices. The high upfront costs of purchasing a reusable NVP may discourage some smokers from switching to vaping. However, the average lower costs of cartridges and e-liquids relative to a package of cigarettes make switching to a NVP an attractive alternative to smoking in the long term so long as smokers switch completely to vaping. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-01 2020-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7507861/ /pubmed/32086385 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055344 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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O'Connor, Richard J
Levy, David T
Cummings, K. Michael
Costs of vaping: evidence from ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey
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title_fullStr Costs of vaping: evidence from ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey
title_full_unstemmed Costs of vaping: evidence from ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey
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title_sort costs of vaping: evidence from itc four country smoking and vaping survey
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7507861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32086385
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055344
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