Influence of the Flavored Cigarette Ban on Adolescent Tobacco Use

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-9-2017

Publication Title

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volume

52

Issue

5

First page number:

e139

Last page number:

e146

Abstract

Introduction: This paper estimated the association between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 2009 ban on flavored cigarettes (which did not apply to menthol cigarettes or tobacco products besides cigarettes) and adolescents’ tobacco use. Methods: Regression modeling was used to evaluate tobacco use before and after the ban. The analyses controlled for a quadratic time trend, demographic variables, prices of cigarettes and other tobacco products, and teenage unemployment rate. Data from the 1999–2013 National Youth Tobacco Surveys were collected and analyzed in 2016. The sample included 197,834 middle and high schoolers. Outcomes were past 30–day cigarette use; cigarettes smoked in the past 30 days among smokers; rate of menthol cigarette use among smokers; and past 30–day use of cigars, smokeless tobacco, pipes, any tobacco products besides cigarettes, and any tobacco products including cigarettes. Results: Banning flavored cigarettes was associated with reductions in the probability of being a cigarette smoker (17%...) (see abstract in article).

Disciplines

Chemicals and Drugs | Community Health and Preventive Medicine | Health Economics | Toxicology

Language

English

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