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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2019

Strategies to Reduce Illicit Trade of Regular Nicotine Tobacco Products After Introduction of a Low-Nicotine Tobacco Product Standard.

Kurt M Ribisl, Dorothy K Hatsukami, Jidong Huang, Rebecca S Williams, Eric C Donny

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Article in American journal of public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Regulatory Approaches and Implementation of Minimally Addictive Combusted Products.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022
    Pooled it
  2. Nicotine Reduction in Cigarettes: Literature Review and Gap Analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019
    Pooled it
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  6. E-cigarette Price Impacts legal and Black-Market Cigarette Purchasing Under a Hypothetical Reduced-Nicotine Cigarette Standard.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023
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  8. Perceptions of Illicit Tobacco Sources Following a Proposed Reduction in Tobacco Availability: A Qualitative Analysis of New Zealanders Who Smoke.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023
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  14. Interest in Illicit Purchase of Cigarettes Under a Very Low Nicotine Content Product Standard.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Kurt M RibislKurt M. Ribisl is with the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dorothy K. Hatsukami is with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Jidong Huang is with the School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta. Rebecca S. Williams is with the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Eric C. Donny is with Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
Dorothy K HatsukamiKurt M. Ribisl is with the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dorothy K. Hatsukami is with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Jidong Huang is with the School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta. Rebecca S. Williams is with the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Eric C. Donny is with Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
Jidong HuangKurt M. Ribisl is with the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dorothy K. Hatsukami is with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Jidong Huang is with the School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta. Rebecca S. Williams is with the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Eric C. Donny is with Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
Rebecca S WilliamsKurt M. Ribisl is with the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dorothy K. Hatsukami is with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Jidong Huang is with the School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta. Rebecca S. Williams is with the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Eric C. Donny is with Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
Eric C DonnyKurt M. Ribisl is with the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dorothy K. Hatsukami is with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Jidong Huang is with the School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta. Rebecca S. Williams is with the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Eric C. Donny is with Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.

Funding

VERY LOW NICOTINE CIGARETTES IN SMOKERS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIAU54DA031659 · NIDA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI HECHT, STEPHEN S · 2011 to 2022
$64.7M
Training & Education Program p294-308P50CA180907 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI RIBISL, KURT M. · 2013 to 2017
$20.2M
The Science of Decision Making: Connecting People and PolicyP50DA036128 · NIDA · GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ERIKSEN, MICHAEL PAUL · 2013 to 2018
$19.4M
Evaluating the Impact of Federal Legislation on Internet Tobacco SalesR01CA169189 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WILLIAMS, REBECCA S · 2012 to 2021
$5.6M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA180907NCI NIH HHS R01 CA169189NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA036128NIDA NIH HHS U54 DA031659
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The US Food and Drug Administration is considering mandating a substantial reduction in the nicotine level of cigarettes and possibly other combusted tobacco products to render them minimially addictive. This would likely result in several public health benefits, including increased cessation, decreased progression to dependence, and reduced consumption of combusted tobacco products. However, findings from clinical trials of reduced-nicotine cigarettes suggest that many smokers consuming low nicotine-content cigarettes sought out regular nicotine-content cigarettes, even when they were asked to only smoke free low-nicotine cigarettes. If this policy were implemented without ensuring that cessation treatments and appealing alternative products (e.g., e-cigarettes) were readily available, some consumers would be likely to seek banned regular nicotine-content combusted tobacco products from illicit sources: retail, online, and individuals. Left unchecked, this illicit market could undermine the public health benefits of the policy. We describe supply and demand factors in an illicit market. Informed by the literature on controlling Internet tobacco sales and reducing illicit trade in low-cost cigarettes when there are price differentials, we recommend tracking and tracing products and greater surveillance and enforcement efforts to minimize illicit trade in normal nicotine products under a low-nicotine tobacco product standard.

Indexed as

HumansIllicit DrugsMarketingPublic HealthSmoking CessationSmoking PreventionTobacco ProductsTobacco Use DisorderIllicit Drugs

Identifiers

PMID31166743
PMCPMC6603473

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