Menthol Cigarettes and Smoking Cessation Behaviour: a Review of Tobacco Industry Documents Stacey J Anderson1,2
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by PubMed Central Research paper Menthol cigarettes and smoking cessation behaviour: a review of tobacco industry documents Stacey J Anderson1,2 1Department of Social and ABSTRACT The concentration of menthol in tobacco prod- Behavioral Sciences, University Objective To determine what the tobacco industry knew ucts varies according to the product and the flavour of California, San Francisco about menthol’s relation to smoking cessation behaviour. desired, but is present in 90% of all tobacco prod- (UCSF), San Francisco, ‘ ’ ‘ ’ 2 3 California, USA Methods A snowball sampling design was used to ucts, mentholated and non-mentholated . 2Center for Tobacco Control systematically search the Legacy Tobacco Documents Studies in the peer-reviewed academic literature of Research and Education, Library (LTDL) (http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu) between 15 the association of menthol smoking and cessation University of California, San May to 1 August 2010. Of the approximately 11 million have yielded conflicting findings. One reason for Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, USA documents available in the LTDL, the iterative searches inconsistencies is differences in study design (eg, returned tens of thousands of results. A final collection of clinical treatment studies, population-based Correspondence to 509 documents relevant to 1 or more of the research studies), and another is differences in cessation Stacey J Anderson, Department questions were qualitatively analysed, as follows: (1) outcomes (eg, length of time abstinent, length of of Social and Behavioral perceived sensory and taste rewards of menthol and time to relapse, number of quit attempts) across Sciences, Box 0612, University fi of California, San Francisco potential relation to quitting; and (2) motivation to quit studies.
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