Trends and socioeconomic differences in roll-your-own tobacco use: findings from the ITC Europe Surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine if exclusive Roll-Your-Own (RYO) tobacco use relative to factory-made (FM) cigarette use has been rising over time, to determine the extent to which economic motives and perceptions that RYO cigarettes are less harmful act as primary motivations for use, and to examine the association of income and education with the level of RYO tobacco use among smokers in four European countries.

Methods

Data were obtained from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Europe Surveys, and a cohort sample of 7070 smokers from the Netherlands, Germany, France and UK were interviewed between June 2006 and December 2012. Generalised estimating equations (GEE) were used to assess trends in RYO use, and whether RYO consumption varied by socioeconomic variables.

Results

SUBMITTER: Brown AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4690618 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature