Variation in Cigarettes, Tobacco use Behaviors and Exposures in ITC Countries

项目3扩展了项目1中概述的国贸中心调查方法，在六个国贸中心国家、两个发达国家(即美国和英国)和四个低收入国家(即中国、马来西亚、墨西哥和泰国)进行补充数据收集，目的是检查主要品牌卷烟品种之间卷烟特性的差异，并探索这些差异与烟草控制政策、烟草使用行为和接触 不同国家的精选烟草烟雾成分。项目3有三个具体目标。目标1涉及跟踪烟草市场和建立一个主要卷烟品牌的储存库，该储存库可与零售商对产品营销和定价活动的评估联系起来。目标2有两个组成部分与香烟的结构和成分有关：(A)确定为储存库获得的香烟的特征以及 这些措施包括：(A)从个人那里获取可能影响烟雾化学成分和消费者接受程度的关键设计和物理特征；(B)开发一组香烟品牌的物理特征，可用于可靠地区分正品和假冒品牌。AIM 3旨在检查吸烟行为和暴露的个人水平差异，还涉及两个组成部分：(A)在项目1中ITC队列参与者的一个小样本中检查烟草使用行为的差异可以通过以下方式解释的程度 (B)比较烟草使用行为、尼古丁摄入量和尼古丁代谢与高资源和低收入中等收入国家内部和之间的社会剥夺/社会经济地位指标之间的关系。

Project 3 extends the ITC survey methodology outlined in Project 1, by undertaking supplementary data collection in six ITC countries, two developed (i.e., US & UK) and four LMICs (i.e., China, Malaysia, Mexico, Thailand) with the goal of examining variation in cigarette characteristics among leading brand varieties, and exploring how these differences relate to tobacco control policies, tobacco uses behaviors, and exposure to selected tobacco smoke constituents in different countries. Project 3 has three specific aims. Aim 1 involves tracking the tobacco market and establishing a repository of leading cigarette brands, linkable to retailer-level evaluations of product marketing and pricing activities. Aim 2 has two components related to the construction and composition of cigarettes: (a) characterizing cigarettes obtained for the repository as well as from individuals for key design and physical features that can influence smoke chemistries and consumer acceptability; and (b) developing a panel of physical features of cigarettes brands that can be used to reliably distinguish legitimate from counterfeit brands. Aim 3, which seeks to examine person-level variation in smoking behaviors and exposures, also involves two components: (a) examining in a subsample of the ITC cohort participants in Project 1 the extent to which variation in tobacco use behaviors can be explained by measures of nicotine intake and nicotine metabolism; and (b) comparing how tobacco use behaviors, nicotine intake and nicotine metabolism are related to indicators of social deprivation/socioeconomic status, both within and between high resource and LMICs.