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，提供补充数据 在六个ITC国家、两个发达国家(即美国和英国)和四个LMIC(即中国、马来西亚、墨西哥、 泰国)，目的是研究主要品牌卷烟品种之间的特征差异，以及 探讨这些差异与控烟政策、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 跟踪烟草市场并建立一个领先卷烟品牌的储存库，可链接到零售商层面 对产品营销和定价活动的评估。AIM 2有两个组件与 香烟的结构和成分：(A)确定为储存库获得的香烟的特征以及 来自个人，了解可能影响烟雾化学和消费者的关键设计和物理特征 可接受性；和(B)开发一组香烟品牌的物理特征，可用于可靠地 辨别正品和假货。目标3，它试图检查人员级别的变化 吸烟行为和暴露也涉及两个组成部分：(A)在国贸中心的一个分样本中进行检查 项目1中的队列参与者烟草使用行为的差异可以通过以下方式解释的程度 尼古丁摄入量和尼古丁代谢的测量；和(B)比较烟草使用行为， 尼古丁摄入量和尼古丁代谢与社会剥夺/社会经济地位的指标有关， 在高资源和低成本集成电路内部和之间。 相关性(请参阅说明)： 拟议的项目试图了解吸烟者和吸烟者产品之间的差异如何以及为什么可能或可能 不影响不同国家对烟草控制政策的反应。了解这些问题可以 提供重要信息以提高这些帮助吸烟者戒烟和避免吸烟的政策的有效性 烟草使用。

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. RELEVANCE (See instructions): The proposed project seeks to understand how and why differences in smokers and products may or may not influence reactions to tobacco control policies in different countries. Understanding these issues can provide important information to increase the effectivenessof these policies to help smokers quit and avoid tobacco use.