This clinical trial will recruit young adults who currently use cigarillos and examine the smoking behavior and perceptions of different flavored cigarillos, product ingredients/additives impacting these perceptions, and simulated tobacco use outcomes (quitting, switching) in various policy scenarios where different types of flavors are available on the market.
This clinical trial will isolate the unique effects of concept descriptors on increased cigarillo use and appeal among experienced young adult cigarillo users. The study will seek to determine the addiction potential of concept flavored cigarillos by examining associations of cigarillo flavor type (concept, characterizing, tobacco) and cigarillo flavoring additives/ingredients to complementary measures of product appeal: subjective effects (e.g., satisfaction, reward, taste), actual smoking behavior (e.g., number of puffs), and simulated cigarillo purchasing, other tobacco product substitution, or quitting under different flavor ban scenarios via an Experimental Tobacco Marketplace (ETM).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
300
Participants will be assessed on puffing behavior, subjective effects, and exhaled carbon monoxide when assigned to using one of three cigarillo brands. Additives and ingredients of the cigarillo used will also be assessed
Participants will be assessed on puffing behavior, subjective effects, and exhaled carbon monoxide when assigned to using one of three cigarillo brands. Additives and ingredients of the cigarillo used will also be assessed
Participants will be assessed on puffing behavior, subjective effects, and exhaled carbon monoxide when assigned to using one of three cigarillo brands. Additives and ingredients of the cigarillo used will also be assessed
West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
Puff number
Number of cigarillo puffs
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of the final smoking visit, approximately 2 weeks
Subjective reward from smoking
Self-reported reward from cigarillo smoking from a questionnaire. This scale has 5 questions with response options ranging from 1 - not at all to 7 - extremely. The score is averaged across the number of items. Higher ratings indicate greater psychological reward
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of the final smoking visit, approximately 2 weeks
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