Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Economic & Health Policy Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2019 Oct 23;14(10):e0224217. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224217. eCollection 2019.
The objective of this article is to examine the factors associated with smoking of flavor capsule cigarettes in Chile, where the popularity of these products has increased dramatically, a trend increasingly observed across the world.
A representative poll of 851 smokers in Metropolitan Santiago de Chile, which comprises 40% of the country's total population, was implemented in mid-2017. Smokers were given a questionnaire that collected socio-demographic information and information on smoking patterns. Four discrete-choice models were estimated on the decision to smoke flavor capsule cigarettes to better understand the statistical relationships between traits of smokers and the consumption of flavor capsule cigarettes.
The results of these models show that each year less in a smoker's age increases the likelihood of preferring flavor capsule cigarettes by, on average, between 0.8 and 0.9 percentage points. If the smoker is a woman, the likelihood of preferring flavor capsule cigarettes increases between 13.4 and 13.5 percentage points. Results also reveal a positive relationship between the price paid and the consumption of flavor capsule cigarettes, indicating that these cigarettes tend to be more expensive. There is no statistical relationship between participation in the labor market and smoking these products.
Chile has the world's highest prevalence of flavor capsule cigarette smoking, which is concentrated among young people (25 years and younger) and females. No relationship between socioeconomic status and use of these products is found, though there are indications that such relationship may exist, as they were at the time of study 14% more expensive, on average, than conventional non-flavored cigarettes. As in most countries, the tobacco industry appears to be deliberately promoting these products with the goal of halting or slowing the decline in cigarette consumption in Chile. Thus, to reduce cigarette consumption (especially among youth), restricting or forbidding cigarette flavorings of all types, including flavor capsules, would be an effective strategy.
本文旨在探讨智利吸食风味胶囊香烟的相关因素。在智利，这类产品的普及程度急剧上升，这种趋势在全球范围内也越来越明显。
2017 年中期，在智利圣地亚哥大都会地区对 851 名吸烟者进行了一项具有代表性的调查，该地区占智利总人口的 40%。吸烟者填写了一份问卷，收集了社会人口统计学信息和吸烟模式信息。通过四个离散选择模型来评估吸食风味胶囊香烟的决策，以更好地理解吸烟者特征与吸食风味胶囊香烟之间的统计关系。
这些模型的结果表明，吸烟者年龄每增加一岁，偏好吸食风味胶囊香烟的可能性平均降低 0.8 到 0.9 个百分点。如果吸烟者是女性，偏好吸食风味胶囊香烟的可能性增加 13.4 到 13.5 个百分点。结果还显示，支付的价格与吸食风味胶囊香烟之间存在正相关关系，表明这些香烟的价格往往更高。劳动力市场参与度与吸食这些产品之间没有统计关系。
智利是世界上吸食风味胶囊香烟比例最高的国家，主要集中在年轻人（25 岁及以下）和女性中。没有发现社会经济地位与使用这些产品之间存在关系，但有迹象表明，由于这些产品的平均价格比传统非调味香烟高出 14%，可能存在这种关系。与大多数国家一样，烟草行业似乎在故意推广这些产品，目的是阻止或减缓智利香烟消费的下降。因此，为了减少香烟消费（尤其是年轻人），限制或禁止所有类型的香烟调味剂，包括风味胶囊，将是一种有效的策略。
