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Cessation behaviours among smokers of menthol and flavoured cigarettes following the implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive: findings from the EUREST-PLUS ITC Europe Surveys

2020; Oxford University Press; Volume: 30; Issue: Supplement_3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/eurpub/ckaa050

1464-360X

Witold Zatoński, Aleksandra Herbeć, Witold Zatoński, Kinga Janik‐Koncewicz, Pete Driezen, Tibor Demjén, Esteve Fernández, Geoffrey T. Fong, Anne C K Quah, Christina N Kyriakos, Ann McNeill, Marc C. Willemsen, Ute Mons, Yannis Tountas, Antigona Trofor, Constantine Vardavas, Krzysztof Przewoźniak, Constantine Vardavas, Andrea Glahn, Christina N Kyriakos, Dominick Nguyen, Katerina Nikitara, Cornel Radu-Loghin, Polina Starchenko, Aristidis Tsatsakis, Charis Girvalaki, Chryssi Igoumenaki, Sophia Papadakis, Aikaterini Papathanasaki, Manolis Tzatzarakis, Constantine Vardavas, Nicolas Bécuwe, Lavinia Deaconu, Sophie Goudet, Christopher Hanley, Oscar Rivière, Tibor Demjén, Judit Kiss, Anna Piroska Kovacs, Esteve Fernández, Yolanda Castellano, Marcela Fu, Sarah O Nogueira, Olena Tigova, Ann McNeill, Katherine East, Sara C Hitchman, Ute Mons, Sarah Kahnert, Yannis Tountas, Panagiotis Behrakis, Filippos T Filippidis, Christina Gratziou, Paraskevi Κatsaounou, Theodosia Peleki, Ioanna Petroulia, Chara Tzavara, Antigona Trofor, Marius Eremia, Lucia Maria Lotrean, Florin Mihălţan, Gernot Rohde, Tamaki Asano, Claudia Cichon, Amy Far, Céline Genton, Melanie Jessner, Linnéa Hedman, Christer Janson, Ann Lindberg, Beth Maguire, Sofía Ravara, Valérie Vaccaro, Brian Ward, Marc C. Willemsen, Hein de Vries, Karin Hummel, Gera E. Nagelhout, Witold Zatoński, Aleksandra Herbeć, Kinga Janik‐Koncewicz, Krzysztof Przewoźniak, Witold Zatoński, Geoffrey T. Fong, Thomas K Agar, Pete Driezen, Shannon Gravely, Anne C K Quah, Mary E. Thompson,

Nutritional Studies and Diet

Abstract The European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) introduced a ban on characterizing flavours in cigarettes (2016), including menthol (2020). The longitudinal data analysis of the EUREST-PLUS International Tobacco Control (ITC) Project Europe Surveys (n = 16 534; Wave 1 in 2016 and Wave 2 in 2018) found significant but small declines in the weighted prevalence of menthol (by 0.94%; P = 0.041) and other flavoured cigarette use (by 1.32%; P < 0.001) following the 2016 TPD. The declines tended to be driven primarily by the menthol and flavoured cigarette (MFC) smokers switching to unflavoured tobacco. Cigarette consumption declined between waves, but there were no statistically significant difference in decline between MFC and unflavoured tobacco smokers on smoking and cessation behaviours between the waves.