ArticleTobacco control2017
Close, but no cigar: certain cigars are pseudo-cigarettes designed to evade regulation.
Article in Tobacco control, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Systematic review of cigars, cigarillos, and little cigars among adolescents: Setting research agenda to inform tobacco control policy.Addictive behaviors · 2019Pooled it
- Addiction potential of combustible menthol cigarette alternatives: a randomised cross-over trial.Tobacco control · 2024Trial
- Comparison of the 1C2 Reference Filtered Cigar to the 1R6F Reference Filtered Cigarette.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Article
- Investigating the substitutability of little cigars/cigarillos, e-cigarettes, and other noncombusted tobacco products for cigarettes using the experimental tobacco marketplace.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Benzo[a]pyrene in the Mainstream Smoke of Little Cigars.Chemical research in toxicology · 2025Article
- Prevalence and Socioeconomic Disparities of Cigar Use in China: Findings from the China Health Literacy Survey with a Focus on the 'Knowledgeable but Economically Marginalized' (KEM) Population.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- How Complete Are Tobacco Sales Data? Assessing the Comprehensiveness of US Tobacco Product Retail Sales Data Through Comparisons to Excise Tax Collections.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
- Free Radicals in Little Cigar Mainstream Smoke and the Potential Influence of Flavoring Chemicals on Free Radical Production.Chemical research in toxicology · 2024Article
- Association between cigar use, with and without cigarettes, and incident diagnosed COPD: a longitudinal cohort study.Respiratory research · 2024Article
- Reactions to Messages About a Nicotine Reduction Policy: A Focus Group Study Among People Who Use Little Cigars and Cigarillos.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
- The Impact of Modest Price Increases and Single Cigar Restrictions on Youth Cigar Use.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Article
- Characteristics of Cheyenne little filtered cigar Instagram ads, 2019-2020.Tobacco control · 2023Article
- Correlates of Anticipated Responses to Cigar Price Increase Among U.S. Adults Who Smoke Cigars.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2023Article
- Factors Associated with Use of Cigars, Little Cigars, Cigarillos, and Blunts among Hip Hop Youth in the United States.American journal of health behavior · 2023Article
- Examining Cigar Pack Quantity Purchases by Cigar Type in the United States Between 2014 and 2017.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Article
- The impact of cigar pack size and pricing policies on youth and adult cigar use in the US.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Article
- "I Crave a Blunt, I Don't Crave a Cigarillo": A Focus Group Study on Perceptions of Nicotine and Addiction among US Adults Who Currently Smoke Little Cigars or Cigarillos.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Industry tactics in anticipation of strengthened regulation: BIDI Vapor unveils non-characterising BIDI Stick flavours on digital media platforms.Tobacco control · 2023Article
- Circumventing cigarette regulation: Product characteristics of cigarette-like cigarillos on the Dutch market.Tobacco induced diseases · 2023Article
- Using an experimental tobacco marketplace to pilot test the substitutability of JUUL e-cigarettes and other alternative nicotine and tobacco products for conventional cigarettes among vulnerable populations.Preventive medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
An abundance of evidence suggests that the tobacco industry's response to increased regulation imposed on cigarettes has been the development of little cigars and filtered cigars which are tobacco products that are merely cigarettes in disguise. Emphasising these products' physical attributes, the tobacco industry has offered cigar products to its consumers as pseudo-cigarettes. For decades, tobacco manufacturers' response to increased cigarette regulation and taxation has been to exploit policy loopholes by offering these little cigars and filtered cigars pseudo-cigarettes that are exempted from this regulatory oversight. As a result, in spite of increased regulations and taxes on cigarettes, smokers can purchase cigars that are almost physically indistinguishable from their cigarettes at a lower cost. This commentary describes the recent evolution of the cigar market in response to federal regulation, and highlights historical cigar industry attempts to evade taxation, capitalise on product features that are off-limits to cigarettes, and capture the shrinking market of cigarette smokers. We present the case that little cigars and filtered cigars, differing very little physically from cigarettes, are products deserving the same regulatory scrutiny.
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