Preliminary investigation of the advertising and availability of PREPs, the new "safe" tobacco products
Preliminary investigation of the advertising and availability of PREPs, the new "safe" tobacco products
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DOI：
10.1023/b:jobm.0000042413.69425.aa
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发表时间：
2004-08-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Weslowski, Z
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作者：
Hickman, N;Klonoff, EA;Weslowski, Z
烟草业最近推出了一套新的“安全”香烟和尼古丁输送装置，据称由于它们的某些致癌物和毒素水平较低，因此可以降低与烟草有关的疾病风险。人们对这些潜在的减少暴露产品（PREP）的生物学影响知之甚少，对其广告和可用性也一无所知。因此，进行了两项试点研究，首次审查后一个问题。在研究1中，我们检查了1998-2002年10种流行杂志上的烟草广告，发现只有1%的广告是针对PREP的。在研究2中，我们试图在随机抽样的113家小商店中购买PREP，发现只有4.4%的商店出售PREP。这些初步研究结果初步表明，烟草行业可能还没有大量投资于那些有可能通过减少其感知危害来增加烟草使用的产品。建议进行更大样本的研究。
The tobacco industry recently introduced a new set of "safe" cigarettes and nicotine delivery devices that purportedly entail reduced tobacco-related disease risk due to their lower level of some carcinogens and toxins. Little is know about the biological impact of these potential reduced exposure products (PREPs) and nothing is known about their advertising and availability. Hence, two pilot studies were conducted to examine the latter issues for the first time. In Study 1, we examined tobacco ads in 10 popular magazines 1998-2002 and found that only 1% of ads were for PREPs. In Study 2, we attempted to purchase PREPs in a random sample of 113 small stores and found that only 4.4% sold any PREP. These preliminary findings tentatively suggest that the industry might not yet be heavily invested in products that have the potential to increase tobacco use by decreasing its perceived harm. Studies with larger samples are recommended.