Tobacco product flavour policies in the USA.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Characterise US residents' exposure to restrictions on sales of flavoured electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS), cigars and menthol cigarettes across states and time, and assess correlations between these policies.

Methods

From 2022 to 2024, we compiled flavour policy locations from advocacy groups and online searches, located corresponding legal texts and reviewed these to identify policy details, including effective dates. Using census data, we calculated the proportion of state residents covered by each policy quarterly from 2009 to 2024 and estimated correlations between them and cigarette taxes.

Results

By January 2024, menthol cigarettes, flavoured cigars and flavoured ENDS sales restrictions covered 15.0%, 18.1% and 28.1% of US residents. About

SUBMITTER: Whitacre TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12501946 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature