Center for Tobacco Research, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Department of Oncology, School of Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
Addiction. 2024 May;119(5):885-897. doi: 10.1111/add.16425. Epub 2024 Jan 7.
Nicotine vaping products (NVPs) can potentially help adult tobacco users quit smoking. This study evaluated how adult consumers compare the costs between NVPs and cigarettes.
We used data from the US arm of the 2016-2020 International Tobacco Control Four Country Smoking and Vaping (ITC 4CV) surveys to perform a multinomial logit model with two-way fixed effects to measure how perceived cost comparisons are associated with NVP and cigarette taxes, use patterns, NVP device types and individual sociodemographic factors.
Higher cigarette taxes are associated with a greater likelihood of perceiving NVPs and cigarettes as costing the same for the overall population and among people who exclusively smoke, and a lower likelihood of perceiving NVPs as more expensive among people who exclusively vape, compared with lower cigarette taxes. Pre-filled cartridge and tank users are more likely to perceive NVPs as less expensive than cigarettes, compared with people who use other types of NVPs. The associations between taxes and perceived cost comparison were more pronounced among males, younger and low-income populations.
Higher cigarette taxes are associated with perceived financial incentives for nicotine vaping products (NVPs) over cigarettes, whereas NVP taxes are not associated with perceived cost comparison between NVPs and cigarettes.
尼古丁电子烟产品（NVPs）可能有助于成年烟草使用者戒烟。本研究评估了成年消费者如何比较 NVPs 和香烟的成本。
我们使用了来自 2016-2020 年国际烟草控制四国吸烟和蒸气调查（ITC 4CV）美国部分的数据，采用双向固定效应的多项逻辑回归模型来衡量感知成本比较与 NVP 和香烟税、使用模式、NVP 设备类型和个体社会人口因素之间的关系。
与较低的香烟税相比，较高的香烟税与更普遍地认为 NVPs 和香烟的成本相同，以及更有可能认为 NVPs 比香烟更昂贵的可能性较低相关，尤其是在只吸烟的人群中。与使用其他类型的 NVPs 的人相比，预填充盒式和罐式用户更有可能认为 NVPs 比香烟便宜。在男性、年轻和低收入人群中，税收和感知成本比较之间的关联更为明显。
较高的香烟税与对尼古丁电子烟产品（NVPs）相对于香烟的经济激励有关，而 NVP 税与 NVPs 和香烟之间的感知成本比较无关。
