TReND publishes Addiction supplement on mentholated cigarettes
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Tobacco Research Network on Disparities (TReND), funded by the NCI and Legacy, are pleased to announce the release of The Role of Mentholated Cigarette Smoking in Smoking Behaviors in United States Populations, a special supplemental issue to the journal Addiction. This special supplement includes 11 new studies focusing on the prevalence of menthol flavored cigarette use, cessation success rates among menthol cigarette users and factors that might influence smoking and quitting menthols. The issue was edited by Drs. Kola Okuyemi, Deirdre Lawrence, Linda Alexander, and George Hammons.
All articles are open access. We invite you to review these papers and circulate them to your colleagues. You may access the papers at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.2010.105.issue-s1/issuetoc.
Articles included in this issue
"Prohibiting menthol in tobacco products: a policy whose time has come"
Cheryl G. Healton, Stacy E. Beck, Julia Cartwright, and Donna M. Vallone
"What is the biological fate of mentholated cigarette smoking?"
George Hammons
"Latent class and mixture models' potential contributions to understanding connections between menthol and other cigarette smoking characteristics"
Brian P. Flaherty
"National patterns and correlates of mentholated cigarette use in the United States"
Deirdre Lawrence, Allison Rose, Pebbles Fagan, Eric T. Moolchan, James Todd Gibson and Cathy L. Backinger
"The intersection of gender and race/ethnicity in smoking behaviors among menthol and non-menthol smokers in the United States"
Catherine Cubbin, Mah-Jabeen Soobader and Felicia B. LeClere
"Are age of smoking initiation and purchasing patterns associated with menthol smoking?"
Anita Fernander, Mary Kay Rayens, Mei Zhang and Sarah Adkins
"The relationships between menthol cigarette preference and state tobacco control policies on smoking behaviors of young adult smokers in the 2006-07 Tobacco Use Supplements to the Current Population Surveys (TUS CPS)"
Karen Ahijevych and Jodi Ford
"Nicotine dependence and quitting behaviors among menthol and non-menthol smokers with similar consumptive patterns"
Pebbles Fagan, Eric T. Moolchan, Alton Hart, Jr., Allison Rose, Deirdre Lawrence, Vickie L. Shavers and James Todd Gibson
"Racial/ethnic differences in menthol cigarette smoking, population quit ratios and utilization of evidence-based tobacco cessation treatments"
Mandy Stahre, Kolawole S. Okuyemi, Anne M. Joseph and Steven S. Fu
"Menthol cigarettes and smoking cessation among racial/ethnic groups in the United States"
Dennis R. Trinidad, Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, Karen Messer, Martha M. White and John P. Pierce
"Occupational status, work-site cessation programs and policies and menthol smoking on quitting behaviors of US smokers"
Linda A. Alexander, Tim Crawford and Marta S. Mendiondo
"Menthol smoking, smoke-free policies and cessation services"
Anita Fernander, Mary Kay Rayens, Ellen Hahn, Mei Zhang and Sarah M. Adkins
"Menthol and non-menthol smoking: the impact of prices and smoke-free air laws"
John A. Tauras, David Levy, Frank J. Chaloupka, Andrea Villanti, Raymond S. Niaura, Donna Vallone and David B. Abrams
"Health profile differences for menthol and non-menthol smokers: findings from the national health interview survey"
Marta S. Mendiondo, Linda A. Alexander and Tim Crawford
