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ArticleJournal of ethnicity in substance abuse

Exploring the hypothetical impact of flavored cigar sales restrictions among black young adult cigar smokers: a semi-structured in-depth interview investigation.

Sheila Pakdaman, Aaron Broun, Danielle A Duarte, Aniruddh Ajith, Bambi Jewett, Nicholas Wong, Erin L Mead-Morse, Kelvin Choi, Julia Chen-Sankey

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Article in Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Public Health Impacts of Flavored Cigar Bans: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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  4. The Public Health Impact of a Ban on Flavored Cigars: A Decision-Theoretic Policy Framework.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.

Sheila PakdamanUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.ORCID 0000-0002-7791-1406
Aaron BrounNational Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, Maryland.
Danielle A DuarteNational Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, Maryland.
Aniruddh AjithNational Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, Maryland.
Bambi JewettNational Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, Maryland.
Nicholas WongUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Erin L Mead-MorseUniversity of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut.ORCID 0000-0002-9720-2658
Kelvin ChoiNational Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, Maryland.
Julia Chen-SankeyRutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities · USUniversity of Southern California · USGeorge Washington University · USNational Cancer Institute · USRutgers, The State University of New Jersey · USUniversity of Connecticut · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROFILINGP30CA072720 · NCI · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI Elisa Victoria Bandera · 1997 to 2026
$94.5M
USC Tobacco Center of Regulatory ScienceU54CA180905 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Jessica Louise Barrington-Trimis · 2018 to 2026
$39.0M
Tobacco Industry Marketing CoreU54CA229973 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI AUDRAIN-MCGOVERN, JANET E · 2018 to 2022
$18.8M
Understanding and reducing tobacco-related health disparities through social and behavioral researchZIAMD000006 · NIMHD · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES · PI CHOI, KELVIN · 2015 to 2025
$7.0M
Electronic Cigarette Use During PregnancyR01CA207491 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI MEAD-MORSE, ERIN LUCIA · 2017 to 2022
$3.5M
Impact of Cigar Flavor on Tobacco Use Behaviors and Addiction in Dual UsersK01DA048494 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI MEAD-MORSE, ERIN LUCIA · 2019 to 2024
$1.1M
Understanding the Influence of E-cigarette Advertisement FeaturesR00CA242589 · NCI · RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES · PI CHEN-SANKEY, JULIA CEN · 2021 to 2024
$842k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA072720NCI NIH HHS R00 CA242589NCI NIH HHS R01 CA207491NCI NIH HHS U54 CA180905NCI NIH HHS U54 CA229973NIDA NIH HHS K01 DA048494
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study assessed the hypothetical impact of flavored cigar sales restrictions on cigar smoking among Black young adult cigar smokers (ages 21-29). Forty in-depth interviews were conducted in 2020. Interviews were independently coded and analyzed using thematic analysis. When asked how they would smoke cigars given a flavor sales restriction, half of participants reported they would smoke in the same way, a third would stop or reduce smoking, and a few were unsure of what they would do. Cigar smoking outcome expectancies, preference for flavors, and perceived addictiveness of cigar products may predict cigar smoking change given flavor sales restrictions.

Indexed as

Black or African AmericanCigar SmokingFlavoring AgentsAdultCommerceFemaleHumansInterviews as TopicMaleSmokersTobacco ProductsYoung AdultFlavoring AgentsBlack or African Americanbluntscigar flavor sales restrictionscigarillosCigarshealth disparitiesminority healthqualitative studytobacco

Identifiers

PMID35943488
PMCPMC9908770
OpenAlexW4290793756

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