ArticleTobacco control2022
'Menthol-Plus': a major category of cigarette found among 'concept' descriptor cigarettes from Mexico.
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- Another day, another tobacco company's devious behaviour: cutout health warning labels on Indonesian cigarette packs.Tobacco control · 2024Article
- Eugenol, menthol and other flavour chemicals in kreteks and 'white' cigarettes purchased in Indonesia.Tobacco control · 2024Article
- GC/HRMS Analysis of E-Liquids Complements In Vivo Modeling Methods and can Help to Predict Toxicity.ACS omega · 2024Article
- Identification of antioxidant and flavour marker compounds in Kalosi-Enrekang Arabica brewed coffee processed using different postharvest treatment methods.Journal of food science and technology · 2024Article
- Chemicals in Cigarette Flavor Capsules From Guatemala and Mexico.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
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- Menthol and Other Flavor Chemicals in Cigarettes from Vietnam and the Philippines.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
- Effects of E-Cigarette Flavor Enhancing Capsules on Inhalable Aerosols.Chemical research in toxicology · 2023Article
- Ethyl maltol, vanillin, corylone and other conventional confectionery-related flavour chemicals dominate in some e-cigarette liquids labelled 'tobacco' flavoured.Tobacco control · 2022Article
- Did JUUL alter the content of menthol pods in response to US FDA flavour enforcement policy?Tobacco control · 2022Article
- Why Smoke Flavor Capsule Cigarettes? Preferences and Perceptions Among Adult Smokers in Mexico.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022Article
- The role of synthetic coolants, WS-3 and WS-23, in modulating E-cigarette-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) in lung epithelial cells.Toxicology reports · 2022Article
- The Flavor Train: The Nature and Extent of Flavored Cigarettes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundTobacco companies are offering cigarettes with 'concept' descriptor names that suggest sensation and/or flavour properties (eg, Marlboro 'Velvet Fusion'). Little has been known about the identities and levels of flavour chemicals in such cigarettes.
methodsThirty-three filter cigarette variants from 27 packs (including two sampler packs with four variations each) from Canada and Mexico were analysed (rod + filter) for 177 flavour chemicals plus triacetin, a filter plasticiser and possible flavourant. Five brands of US mentholated filter cigarettes were also analysed.
resultsTwenty-seven of the 33 cigarettes (all were Mexican variants) were categorised as 'menthol-plus': significant menthol (3.0-11.9 mg/cigarette), plus varying amounts (0.32-3.4 mg/cigarette) of total other flavour chemicals (TOFCs) (excludes triacetin). For 10 of the 27, TOFCs >1.0 mg/cigarette. For 7 of the 27, the TOFCs profile was categorised as containing total fruit flavour compounds (TFFCs) >1.0 mg/cigarette. One Mexican variant was categorised as 'menthol-only' (TOFCs ≤0.15 mg/cigarette). All menthol-plus and menthol-only cigarettes contained one or two optional-crush capsules in their filters (crushed prior to analysis). All five Canadian brand variants were 'non-flavoured'. All five US brand variants were 'menthol-only'.
conclusionsAll but one of the 'concept' descriptor cigarettes from Mexico were 'menthol-plus'. While the Canadian cigarettes complied with Canada's flavour chemical ban, concept descriptors on the packs may increase appeal. Given the scale of the problem posed by menthol alone, health officials seeking to decrease the appeal of smoked tobacco should examine the extent to which 'concept descriptor' cigarettes using 'menthol-plus' flavour profiling together with artful descriptors are furthering the problem of smoked tobacco.
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