Tobacco products sold by Internet vendors following restrictions on flavors and light descriptors.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act bans characterizing flavors (e.g., grape, strawberry) in cigarettes, excluding tobacco and menthol, and prohibits companies from using misleading descriptors (e.g., light, low) that imply reduced health risks without submitting scientific data to support the claim and obtaining a marketing authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This observational study examines tobacco products offered by Internet cigarette vendors (ICV) pre- and postimplementation of the ban on characterizing flavors in cigarettes and the restriction on misleading descriptors.

Methods

Cross-sectional samples of the 200 most popular ICVs in 2009, 2010, and 2011 were identified. Data were analyzed in 2012 and 2013.

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SUBMITTER: Jo CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4837994 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature