Reduced nicotine content cigarettes in smokers of low socioeconomic status: study protocol for a randomized control trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act gave the Food and Drug Administration jurisdiction over the regulation of all tobacco products, including their nicotine content. Under this act, a major strategy to reduce harm from cigarette tobacco is lowering the nicotine content without causing unintended adverse consequences. Initial research on reduced nicotine content (RNC) cigarettes has shown that smokers of these cigarettes gradually decrease their smoking frequency and biomarkers of exposure. The effectiveness of this strategy needs to be demonstrated in different populations whose response to RNC cigarettes might be substantially mediated by personal or environmental factors, such as low socioeconomic status (SES) populations. This study aims to evaluate

SUBMITTER: Krebs NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5496140 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature