ArticleTobacco control2025
Across the world availability of flavour accessories for tobacco products.
Article in Tobacco control, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07092501 (An Experimental Evaluation of Menthol-Flavored Tobacco Accessories), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.
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An Experimental Evaluation of Menthol-Flavored Tobacco Accessories: Subjective Effects and Purchasing Behavior
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Systematic Assessment of Flavor Cues and Additives in Cigarettes and Heated Tobacco Products in Korea: Cross-Sectional Surveillance Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2026Article
- Effects of menthol cigarette and e-cigarette flavour restrictions on tobacco product purchasing: insights from the Experimental Tobacco Marketplace.Tobacco control · 2026Article
- Air refresher? Menthol cigarette accessory marketing in the USA and parallels in countries with menthol bans.Tobacco control · 2026Article
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- Menthol cigarette alternative products: Awareness, use, and substitution intentions among adults who smoke menthol cigarettes.Addictive behaviors · 2025Article
- Oral Tobacco and Nicotine Marketplace Trends Since the Tobacco Control Act.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- From Menthol Cigarettes to Flavored Hookah: The Urgent Need for Stronger Policies.Iranian journal of psychiatry and behavioral sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study aimed to provide an inventory of different types of flavour accessories for combustible tobacco products in eight countries varying in their approaches to flavour legislation and cultural aspects, including tobacco use.
methodsA standardised search protocol was developed and shared with local informants to acquire information on the availability and marketing of flavour accessories in web shops accessible from Brazil, India, Italy, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. Characteristics of the products and web shops were reported, and flavours were categorised in a flavour wheel.
resultsFlavour accessories were available in all participating countries. Reported types are flavour capsules, cards, filter tips and tubes for make-your-own cigarettes, drops, sprays, rolling paper, aroma markers, a flavour stone and a flavour powder. In total, 118 unique flavours were reported, which were mostly fruity and sweet. Marketing of these products was often associated with (menthol) flavour bans.
conclusionsThe wide availability and variety of flavour accessories raise significant public health concerns, as they have attractive flavours, and thus hinder the regulatory aim of flavour bans. Flavour accessories are not tobacco products and thus not regulated as such. Therefore, it is recommended that policymakers include these products in comprehensive flavour bans, to close this loophole in existing tobacco control measures.
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