adults’ E-Cigarette Flavor Use and Cigarette quit attempts: Population assessment of Tobacco and health Study Findings.

Introduction:
This text summarizes the results of a study examining the relationship between adults' use of e-cigarette flavors and their attempts to quit smoking traditional cigarettes. The study uses data from the Population assessment of Tobacco and health (PaTh) Study, a nationally representative, cohort study of adults and youth in the U.S. The study focuses on adults who smoked cigarettes and used e-cigarettes (dual users) at least once in the past 30 days in 2015-2016 and had follow-up data in 2016-2017.

Key Points:

* The study found that approximately half of adult dual users used only non-tobacco, non-menthol/mint flavored e-cigarettes.
* There were no statistically significant differences in rates of attempting to quit cigarette smoking as a function of e-cigarette flavor use.
* The study controlled for demographics, cigarette smoking frequency, e-cigarette use frequency, and e-cigarette device type in their analysis.
* The study is limited in that it does not assess flavor use at the time of the quit attempt.
* Future research should examine stability of e-cigarette flavor use and whether flavor use is associated with cigarette quit success among quit attempters.
* The study was supported with Federal funds from the National Institute on Drug abuse (NIDa), NIh, and the Center for Tobacco Products, U.S. Food and Drug administration (FDa), hhS, under contract to Westat and through an interagency agreement between the FDa Center for Tobacco Products and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
* Staff from NIDa and FDa contributed to the design and conduct of the study; interpretation of the data; preparation, review, and approval of the manuscript; and the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

Main Message:
The study found that e-cigarette flavor use among adult dual users in the U.S. does not appear to be associated with attempting to quit cigarette smoking, though use of non-tobacco, non-menthol/mint flavored e-cigarettes is most prevalent among adult dual users. The study's findings suggest that there is no evidence to support the prohibition of e-cigarette flavors as a means to increase cigarette quit attempts. however, further research is needed to examine stability of e-cigarette flavor use and whether flavor use is associated with cigarette quit success among quit attempters.

Kasza Ka, Edwards KC, Gravely S, et al. adults’ E-Cigarette Flavor Use and Cigarette quit attempts: Population assessment of Tobacco and health Study Findings. american journal of preventive medicine. 2021;60(2):300-302. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2020.06.017