Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, School of Public Health, Dallas, TX 77054, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jun 13;19(12):7219. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19127219.
This study asks young adult cigarillo users to categorize their preferred flavor in order to examine user consensus and potential methodological and regulatory implications of flavor name-based categorization systems. Young adult (21-28 years) cigarillo users ( = 426) named and categorized their favorite cigarillo flavor into one of seven categories: Fruit, Sweet and Candy, Mint, Alcohol, Menthol, Tobacco, and Other. Flavor responses were coded as characterizing (ex: Grape, Wine) or concept (ex: Jazz, Diamond) flavors. Variation within and between categories was assessed, including the presence of concept flavors and the placement of flavors in multiple categories. Of the 66 unique flavor names provided, participants placed 20 (30.1%) in more than one flavor category. Most of the Tobacco (76.9%) and Other (69.2%) flavor names appeared in multiple categories. The majority of flavor names in the Tobacco (69.2%) and Other (61.5%) categories were concept flavors. Concept flavors were placed in multiple categories (45.0%) twice as often as characterizing flavors (23.9%). This study has identified dissonance among cigarillo users' flavor categorizations, particularly for concept flavored and unflavored products. Flavor names may obscure how and whether a product is flavored. Research on and regulation of flavored tobacco products should classify products by flavor additives rather than by name alone.
本研究要求年轻成年小雪茄使用者对其偏好的口味进行分类，以检验基于口味名称的分类系统的用户共识和潜在方法学及监管意义。年轻成年（21-28 岁）小雪茄使用者（n=426）将他们最喜欢的小雪茄口味命名并分类为以下七个类别之一：水果、甜香和糖果、薄荷、酒精、薄荷醇、烟草和其他。口味反应被编码为特征（如：葡萄、葡萄酒）或概念（如：爵士、钻石）口味。评估了类别内和类别之间的变化，包括概念口味的存在以及口味在多个类别中的位置。在提供的 66 个独特的口味名称中，参与者将 20 个（30.1%）放在了多个口味类别中。大多数烟草（76.9%）和其他（69.2%）口味名称出现在多个类别中。烟草（69.2%）和其他（61.5%）类别的大多数口味名称都是概念口味。概念口味被放在多个类别（45.0%）中的次数是特征口味（23.9%）的两倍。本研究发现，小雪茄使用者的口味分类存在不一致，特别是对于概念口味和无口味产品。口味名称可能会掩盖产品的调味方式和是否调味。对调味烟草产品的研究和监管应根据调味添加剂对产品进行分类，而不仅仅是根据名称。
