Electronic cigarette and moist snuff product characteristics independently associated with youth tobacco product perceptions.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Tobacco product characteristics convey product attributes to potential users. This study aimed to assess independent contributions of specific e-cigarette and smokeless tobacco product characteristics to adolescents' perceptions about these products.

Methods

In 2019-2020, students (N=1003) attending a convenience sample of 7 high schools in California (USA) were individually randomized to one of two discrete choice experiments, featuring either electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) or moist snuff. Participants were presented like-product pairs of randomlygenerated hypothetical tobacco products differing in device type, flavor, vapor cloud, and nicotine amount (for e-cigarettes) or differing in brand, flavor, cut, and price (for moist snuff). Within pairs, partici

SUBMITTER: Chaffee BW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7485438 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature