Sensory attributes of e-cigarette flavours and nicotine as mediators of interproduct differences in appeal among young adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the extent to which specific sensory attributes, for example, smoothness, mediate differences in electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) appeal between products in non-tobacco versus tobacco flavours and varying nicotine content in young adults.

Method

E-cigarette users (n=100; aged 18-34 years) administered standardised two-puff e-cigarette doses of different products varying in a flavour (fruit, menthol, tobacco) × nicotine (nicotine-containing (6 mg/mL freebase), nicotine-free) within-subject design. Participants rated sensory attributes (sweetness, bitterness, smoothness and harshness) and appeal on 100-unit visual analogue scales after administering each product. Sensory ratings were tested as simultaneous mediators of flavour, nicotine and flavour × ni

SUBMITTER: Leventhal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7473634 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature