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Electronic cigarette use intensity measurement challenges and regulatory implications
Assessing tobacco use intensity allows researchers to examine tobacco use in greater detail than assessing ever or current use only. Tobacco use intensity measures have been developed that are specific to tobacco products, such as asking smokers to report number of cigarettes smoked per day. However...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8630087/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34059553 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-056483 |
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author | Soule, Eric Bansal-Travers, Maansi Grana, Rachel McIntosh, Scott Price, Simani Unger, Jennifer B Walton, Kevin |
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description | Assessing tobacco use intensity allows researchers to examine tobacco use in greater detail than assessing ever or current use only. Tobacco use intensity measures have been developed that are specific to tobacco products, such as asking smokers to report number of cigarettes smoked per day. However, consensus on electronic cigarette use intensity measures that can be used for survey research has yet to be established due to electronic cigarette product and user behavior heterogeneity. While some survey measures that attempt to assess electronic cigarette use intensity exist, such as examining number of ‘times’ using an electronic cigarette per day, number of puffs taken from an electronic cigarette per day, volume of electronic cigarette liquid consumed per day, or nicotine concentration of electronic cigarette liquid, most measures have limitations. Challenges in electronic cigarette measurement often stem from variations across electronic cigarette device and liquid characteristics as well as the difficulty that many electronic cigarette users have regarding answering questions about their electronic cigarette device, liquid, or behavior. The inability for researchers to measure electronic cigarette use intensity accurately has important implications such as failing to detect unintended consequences of regulatory policies. Development of electronic cigarette use intensity measures, though not without its challenges, can improve understanding of electronic cigarette use behaviors and associated health outcomes and inform development of regulatory policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-86300872022-12-21 Electronic cigarette use intensity measurement challenges and regulatory implications Soule, Eric Bansal-Travers, Maansi Grana, Rachel McIntosh, Scott Price, Simani Unger, Jennifer B Walton, Kevin Tob Control Special Communication Assessing tobacco use intensity allows researchers to examine tobacco use in greater detail than assessing ever or current use only. Tobacco use intensity measures have been developed that are specific to tobacco products, such as asking smokers to report number of cigarettes smoked per day. However, consensus on electronic cigarette use intensity measures that can be used for survey research has yet to be established due to electronic cigarette product and user behavior heterogeneity. While some survey measures that attempt to assess electronic cigarette use intensity exist, such as examining number of ‘times’ using an electronic cigarette per day, number of puffs taken from an electronic cigarette per day, volume of electronic cigarette liquid consumed per day, or nicotine concentration of electronic cigarette liquid, most measures have limitations. Challenges in electronic cigarette measurement often stem from variations across electronic cigarette device and liquid characteristics as well as the difficulty that many electronic cigarette users have regarding answering questions about their electronic cigarette device, liquid, or behavior. The inability for researchers to measure electronic cigarette use intensity accurately has important implications such as failing to detect unintended consequences of regulatory policies. Development of electronic cigarette use intensity measures, though not without its challenges, can improve understanding of electronic cigarette use behaviors and associated health outcomes and inform development of regulatory policies. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-01 2021-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8630087/ /pubmed/34059553 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-056483 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Special Communication Soule, Eric Bansal-Travers, Maansi Grana, Rachel McIntosh, Scott Price, Simani Unger, Jennifer B Walton, Kevin Electronic cigarette use intensity measurement challenges and regulatory implications |
title | Electronic cigarette use intensity measurement challenges and regulatory implications |
title_full | Electronic cigarette use intensity measurement challenges and regulatory implications |
title_fullStr | Electronic cigarette use intensity measurement challenges and regulatory implications |
title_full_unstemmed | Electronic cigarette use intensity measurement challenges and regulatory implications |
title_short | Electronic cigarette use intensity measurement challenges and regulatory implications |
title_sort | electronic cigarette use intensity measurement challenges and regulatory implications |
topic | Special Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8630087/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34059553 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-056483 |
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