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The Use of Tobacco Industry Vaping Products in the UK and Product Characteristics: A Cross-Sectional Survey
BACKGROUND: Tobacco industry (TI) companies have entered the UK e-cigarette (“vaping”) market in recent years. However, their motives and ambitions are unclear. This study explored how popular TI vaping products are and who uses them, and how they differ from independent products. METHODS: Secondary...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9199949/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34888689 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntab253 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Tobacco industry (TI) companies have entered the UK e-cigarette (“vaping”) market in recent years. However, their motives and ambitions are unclear. This study explored how popular TI vaping products are and who uses them, and how they differ from independent products. METHODS: Secondary analysis of data from a longitudinal web-based survey of smokers, ex-smokers, and vapers (n = 3883) in the UK in 2019. The main study sample consisted of daily and nondaily vapers, who were current or ex-cigarette smokers, and had stated the brand of their preferred e-cigarette device (n = 1202). Proportions using TI and independent brands were calculated and regression analysis assessed associations with sociodemographic and smoking/vaping characteristics between vapers of TI and independent products. Chi-square tests were used to analyze differences between TI and independent products. RESULTS: Overall, 53.4% used TI products. A university education (67.6%; (adj)OR = 1.54; 95% CI, 1.140–2.088), nondaily vaping (68.2%; (adj)OR = 1.39; CI, 1.029–1.880), and cigarette dependence (moderate, strong and very strong urges to smoke) were associated with using TI vaping brands. TI products used were less likely to be refillable (“open”) than independent brands (60.9% vs. 18.3%, chi-square = 228.98, p < .001), more likely to use nicotine salts (16.7% vs. 8.6%, chi-square = 25.04, p < .001) and tobacco flavors (23.8% vs. 17.9%, chi-square = 12.65, p < .001). CONCLUSION: TI vaping products were popular in the UK, associations with product and user characteristics suggest that TI products may be less conducive to smoking cessation, although the findings were not always consistent. IMPLICATIONS: Consequences of regulations need to be carefully considered to ensure that independent producers are not more negatively impacted than tobacco industry producers, and to avoid reducing utility of products for smoking cessation. |
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spelling | pubmed-91999492022-06-16 The Use of Tobacco Industry Vaping Products in the UK and Product Characteristics: A Cross-Sectional Survey Cornish, Elliot J Brose, Leonie S McNeill, Ann Nicotine Tob Res Original Investigations BACKGROUND: Tobacco industry (TI) companies have entered the UK e-cigarette (“vaping”) market in recent years. However, their motives and ambitions are unclear. This study explored how popular TI vaping products are and who uses them, and how they differ from independent products. METHODS: Secondary analysis of data from a longitudinal web-based survey of smokers, ex-smokers, and vapers (n = 3883) in the UK in 2019. The main study sample consisted of daily and nondaily vapers, who were current or ex-cigarette smokers, and had stated the brand of their preferred e-cigarette device (n = 1202). Proportions using TI and independent brands were calculated and regression analysis assessed associations with sociodemographic and smoking/vaping characteristics between vapers of TI and independent products. Chi-square tests were used to analyze differences between TI and independent products. RESULTS: Overall, 53.4% used TI products. A university education (67.6%; (adj)OR = 1.54; 95% CI, 1.140–2.088), nondaily vaping (68.2%; (adj)OR = 1.39; CI, 1.029–1.880), and cigarette dependence (moderate, strong and very strong urges to smoke) were associated with using TI vaping brands. TI products used were less likely to be refillable (“open”) than independent brands (60.9% vs. 18.3%, chi-square = 228.98, p < .001), more likely to use nicotine salts (16.7% vs. 8.6%, chi-square = 25.04, p < .001) and tobacco flavors (23.8% vs. 17.9%, chi-square = 12.65, p < .001). CONCLUSION: TI vaping products were popular in the UK, associations with product and user characteristics suggest that TI products may be less conducive to smoking cessation, although the findings were not always consistent. IMPLICATIONS: Consequences of regulations need to be carefully considered to ensure that independent producers are not more negatively impacted than tobacco industry producers, and to avoid reducing utility of products for smoking cessation. Oxford University Press 2021-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9199949/ /pubmed/34888689 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntab253 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Investigations Cornish, Elliot J Brose, Leonie S McNeill, Ann The Use of Tobacco Industry Vaping Products in the UK and Product Characteristics: A Cross-Sectional Survey |
title | The Use of Tobacco Industry Vaping Products in the UK and Product Characteristics: A Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_full | The Use of Tobacco Industry Vaping Products in the UK and Product Characteristics: A Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_fullStr | The Use of Tobacco Industry Vaping Products in the UK and Product Characteristics: A Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_full_unstemmed | The Use of Tobacco Industry Vaping Products in the UK and Product Characteristics: A Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_short | The Use of Tobacco Industry Vaping Products in the UK and Product Characteristics: A Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_sort | use of tobacco industry vaping products in the uk and product characteristics: a cross-sectional survey |
topic | Original Investigations |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9199949/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34888689 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntab253 |
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