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ArticlePreventive medicine reports2015

Menthol cigarette smoking and obesity in young adult daily smokers in Hawaii.

Alyssa Marie M Antonio, Pebbles Fagan, Faith D Hamamura, Ian Joseph N Lagua, Jenny Liu, Devin J Park, Pallav Pokhrel, Thaddeus A Herzog, Ian Pagano, Kevin Cassel and 9 more

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Article in Preventive medicine reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Alyssa Marie M AntonioUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Pebbles FaganUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Faith D HamamuraUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Ian Joseph N LaguaUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Jenny LiuUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Devin J ParkUniversity of Washington, Box 357630, H375 Health Science Building, Seattle, WA 98195-7630, USA.
Pallav PokhrelUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Thaddeus A HerzogUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Ian PaganoUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Kevin CasselUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Angela SyUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, 2528 McCarthy Mall, Webster Hall, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
Dorothy JorgensenUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Tania LynchUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Crissy KawamotoUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Carol J BousheyUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Adrian FrankeUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Mark S ClantonTMF Health Quality Institute, 5918 W Courtyard Drive, Austin, TX 78730, USA.
Eric T Moolchan325 Elm Street Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Linda A AlexanderUniversity of Kentucky College of Public Health, 151 Bowman Hall 343, Lexington, KY 40506, USA.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · USUniversity of Kentucky · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

University of Hawaii Cancer Center CCSGP30CA071789 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI Pallav Pokhrel · 1996 to 2026
$56.2M
RESEARCH DESIGN AND BIOSTATISTICS COREU54MD007584 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI HEDGES, JERRIS ROBERT, MOKUAU, NOREEN · 2012 to 2018
$21.1M
Research ProjectU54CA153499 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI CHEN, MOON SHAO-CHUANG, CHOW, EDWARD A. · 2010 to 2015
$6.7M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA071789NCI NIH HHS U54 CA153499NIMHD NIH HHS U54 MD007584
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study investigates 1) the relationship between menthol cigarette smoking and obesity and 2) the association of body mass index with the nicotine metabolite ratio among menthol and non-menthol daily smokers aged 18-35 (n = 175). A brief survey on smoking and measures of height and weight, carbon monoxide, and saliva samples were collected from participants from May to December 2013 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Multiple regression was used to estimate differences in body mass index among menthol and non-menthol smokers and the association of menthol smoking with obesity. We calculated the log of the nicotine metabolite ratio to examine differences in the nicotine metabolite ratio among normal, overweight, and obese smokers. Sixty-eight percent of smokers used menthol cigarettes. Results showed that 62% of normal, 54% of overweight, and 91% of obese smokers used menthol cigarettes (p = .000). The mean body mass index was significantly higher among menthol compared with non-menthol smokers (29.4 versus 24.5, p = .000). After controlling for gender, marital status, educational attainment, employment status, and race/ethnicity, menthol smokers were more than 3 times as likely as non-menthol smokers to be obese (p = .04). The nicotine metabolite ratio was significantly lower for overweight menthol smokers compared with non-menthol smokers (.16 versus .26, p = .02) in the unadjusted model, but was not significant after adjusting for the covariates. Consistent with prior studies, our data show that menthol smokers are more likely to be obese compared with non-menthol smokers. Future studies are needed to determine how flavored tobacco products influence obesity among smokers.

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Body mass indexMentholObesitySmokingYoung Adults

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PMID26844173
PMCPMC4721282
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