Overview
This multi-method project will recruit young adults who currently use cigarillos and examine the effects of different flavored cigarillo types (concept, characterizing, tobacco) on three measures of tobacco product appeal: subjective effects (e.g., taste, enjoyment, satisfaction, reward), actual smoking behavior (e.g., number of puffs), and tobacco product purchases via a simulated experimental tobacco marketplace.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Ages18 to 34
- Smoke a little cigar or cigarillo (LCCs) "some days" or "everyday" (verified by brand name of the product);
- Ability to read English at an 8th grade level or higher; and
- No immediate plans to quit using tobacco
- > 1 prior experience, even 1 puff, with a flavored tobacco product
- U.S. Citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Current use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) or stop smoking medication;
- Pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or currently breastfeeding;
- Past or current self-reported clinically significant heart disease or hypertension, or other smoking-related disease (by history) that preclude successful study completion;
- Inability to abstain from nicotine/tobacco products for at least 12 hours prior to lab sessions
- Report using the study cigarillo brand as their preferred brand (as this will likely unduly influence their perceptions)
- Unwillingness to use "untipped" (e.g., plastic or wood tip) little cigars/cigarillos.