Examining the role of menthol cigarettes in progression to established smoking among youth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Menthol, a flavoring compound added to cigarettes, makes cigarettes more appealing to youth and inexperienced smokers and increases cigarettes' abuse liability. However, limited studies are available on menthol's role in smoking progression.

Methods

To assess the association between menthol in cigarettes and progression to established smoking, we used five waves of data from the Evaluation of Public Education Campaign on Teen Tobacco Cohort Study, a nationally representative longitudinal survey of U.S. youth conducted as part of "The Real Cost" evaluation. We used discrete time survival analysis to model the occurrence of two event outcomes-progression to established, current smoking and progression to established, frequent smoking-using a logit model with a menth

SUBMITTER: Nonnemaker J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6755667 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature