Impact of smoking reduced nicotine content cigarettes on sensitivity to cigarette price: further results from a multi-site clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To assess the impact of a reduction in the nicotine content of cigarettes on estimated consumption of reduced nicotine cigarettes and usual brand cigarettes at a variety of hypothetical prices.

Design

Double-blind study with participants assigned randomly to receive cigarettes for 6 weeks that were either usual brand or an investigational cigarette with one of five nicotine contents.

Setting

Ten sites across the United States.

Participants

A total of 839 eligible adult smokers randomized from 2013 to 2014.

Intervention and comparator

Participants received their usual brand or an investigational cigarette with one of five nicotine contents: 15.8 (primary control), 5.2, 2.4, 1.3, or 0.4 mg/g.

Measurements

The Cigarette Purchase Task was complet

SUBMITTER: Smith TT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5233558 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature