| Literature DB >> 28400490 |
Shannon M Farley1, Kevin Rj Schroth1, Victoria Grimshaw1, Wentai Luo2,3, Julia L DeGagne3, Peyton A Tierney3, Kilsun Kim2, James F Pankow2,3.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Youth who experiment with tobacco often start with flavoured products. In New York City (NYC), local law restricts sales of all tobacco products with 'characterising flavours' except for 'tobacco, menthol, mint and wintergreen'. Enforcement is based on packaging: explicit use of a flavour name (eg, 'strawberry') or image depicting a flavour (eg, a fruit) is presumptive evidence that a product is flavoured and therefore prohibited. However, a tobacco product may contain significant levels of added flavour chemicals even when the label does not explicitly use a flavour name.Entities:
Keywords: Illegal tobacco products; Packaging and Labelling; Public policy; Surveillance and monitoring; Tobacco industry
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28400490 PMCID: PMC5870443 DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053552
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Tob Control ISSN: 0964-4563 Impact factor: 7.552
Figure 1Results for 16 products without explicit flavour names in bar plot form; the values for three products with flavour names examined in this study (A, B and C) are included for comparison. Additional values for reference are for products with explicit flavour names as derived from Brown et al 12 (see also table 1b). NYC, New York City.
Levels of flavour compounds (compounds 1–22) in six tobacco products (numbers 11–16) without explicit flavour names, and three tobacco products (A, B and C) with explicit flavour names, all purchased in February and March of 2015 in New York City. Products ranked (decreasing order) by totals for 93 chemicals determined. Values given are means for triplicate analyses. All values in micrograms (µg) of flavour chemical per gram of product (µg/(g of product)), using a maximum of three significant figures. Only values found to be >1.0 µg/g are given
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | A | B | C | ||
| Compound | Camel ‘Mellow’ snus(µg/g) | Hype ‘Blue Mixx’ cigarillos(µg/g) | D’Ville ‘Pink’ cigars(µg/g) | Zig Zag ‘Pink’ cigars(µg/g) | Camel ‘Robust’ snus(µg/g) | Peach ‘Sweet’ Snuff’(µg/g) | Skoal ‘Citrus’ moist snuff(µg/g) | Black & Mild ‘Cream’ ‘cigars’(µg/g) | Camel Snus ‘Frost’ moist snuff(µg/g) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total: | 1830. | 1600. | 1120. | 941. | 271. | 65.4 | 18 100. | 15 000. | 9300. | |
| 1 | Ethyl vanillin | 1470 | 10.0 | 599 | 25.3 | 451 | 11 000 | |||
| 2 | Vanillin | 11.3 | 698 | 413 | 698 | 8.37 | 644 | 3380 | 582 | |
| 3 | Benzyl alcohol | 3.4 | 16.5 | 7.9 | 28.1 | 121 | 2980 | 6.08 | 5.4 | |
| 4 | Limonene | 10.7 | 13.4 | 12.0 | 9510 | 108 | ||||
| 5 | Menthol | 17.4 | 44.1 | 128 | 4290 | |||||
| 6 | Carvone | 48.0 | 4070 | |||||||
| 7 | Ethyl maltol | 36.4 | 2.1 | 7.6 | 7.1 | |||||
| 8 | Methyl anthranilate | 2.6 | 30.8 | 4.9 | ||||||
| 9 | Linalool | 264 | 900 | 5.2 | ||||||
| 10 | Piperonal | 86.0 | 6.1 | 4.3 | 17.1 | 227 | ||||
| 11 | Ethyl isovalerate | 13.4 | ||||||||
| 12 |
| 54.6 | 4.7 | 31.0 | ||||||
| 13 |
| 10.1 | 7.2 | |||||||
| 14 | Methyl salicylate | 3.3 | 3.4 | 915 | 5.17 | |||||
| 15 | γ-Undecalactone | 47.8 | 56.6 | |||||||
| 16 | γ-Decalactone | 94.2 | 38.6 | 5.3 | 70.9 | |||||
| 17 | Furfuryl alcohol | 30.7 | 29.6 | 257 | ||||||
| 18 | Raspberry ketone | 59.4 | 13.7 | 161.0 | ||||||
| 19 | Ethyl hexanoate | 13.5 | ||||||||
| 20 | Maltol | 13.3 | 218 | 13.8 | 10.6 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 102 | 16.7 | |
| 21 | α-Terpineol | 582 | 26.1 | |||||||
| 22 | Benzaldehyde propylene glycol acetal | 34.4 | 8.9 | 174 |
Values derived from Brown et al 12 for products with explicit flavour names, recomputed from amount ‘per serving’ to µg per g tobacco product
| Product | Total flavour concentration (µg/g) |
| Skoal ‘Cherry’ moist snuff | 12 600 |
| Skoal ‘Berry Blend’ moist snuff | 11 200 |
| Zig Zag Wraps ‘Cherry’ blunt wraps | 6840 |
| Kayak ‘Apple’ moist snuff | 5300 |
| Zig Zag Wraps ‘Grape’ blunt wraps | 5300 |
| Cheyenne ‘Wild Cherry’ " large cigars’ | 5130 |
| Kayak ‘Grape’ moist snuff | 5080 |
| Phillies Blunt ‘Grape’ cigar | 4560 |
| Zig Zag Wraps ‘Apple’ blunt wraps | 4430 |
| Kayak ‘Peach’ moist snuff | 3720 |
| Cheyenne ‘Grape’ " large cigars’ | 3480 |
| Zig Zag Wraps ‘Blueberry’ blunt wraps | 3450 |
| Skoal ‘Apple’ moist snuff | 2790 |
| Cheyenne ‘Xotic Berry’ ‘large cigars’ | 2630 |
| Swisher Sweet ‘BLK Cherry’ cigarillos | 2340 |
| Swisher Sweet ‘Peach’ cigarillos | 1010 |
| Cheyenne ‘Peach’ ‘large cigars’ | 571 |
| Royal Blunt XXL ‘Sour Apple’ blunt wraps | 313 |
Levels of flavour-related chemicals (compounds 1–22) in 10 tobacco products (1–10) without explicit flavour names purchased in February and March of 2015 in New York City. Products ranked (decreasing order) by totals for 93 chemicals determined. Values given are means for triplicate analyses. All values in micrograms (µg) of flavour chemical per gram of product (µg/(g of product)), using a maximum of three significant figures. Only values found to be >1.0 µg/g are given
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |||
| Compound | Average for all 19 products(µg/g) | Show ‘Poco Loco’ cigarillos(µg/g) | Show ‘TaTa’ cigarillos(µg/g) | Bluntville ‘Piff’ cigarillos(µg/g) | Show ‘Ba Boom’ cigarillos(µg/g) | Black & Mild ‘Royale’ cigars(µg/g) | Hype ‘Sweet’ cigarillos(µg/g) | Show ‘Buzz’ cigarillos(µg/g) | Bluntville ‘Blue’ cigarillos(µg/g) | Rock n’ Roll ‘Blue’ cigars(µg/g) | Hype ‘Purple Reserve’ cigarillos(µg/g) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total: | 5460. | 12 500. | 7880. | 7810. | 5440. | 4480. | 4440. | 4170. | 3460. | 3420. | 1930. | |
| 1 | Ethyl vanillin | 1380 | 1830 | 1500 | 2170 | 13.5 | 535 | 2070 | 1640 | 577 | 1860 | 383 |
| 2 | Vanillin | 899 | 1110 | 1060 | 1340 | 1270 | 1050 | 840 | 438 | 1670 | 1490 | 385 |
| 3 | Benzyl alcohol | 810 | 494 | 2580 | 1310 | 1630 | 5.8 | 1000 | 133 | 288 | 4.08 | 324 |
| 4 | Limonene | 623 | 1330 | 643 | 192 | 20.1 | ||||||
| 5 | Menthol | 236 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Carvone | 217 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Ethyl maltol | 208 | 517 | 392 | 127 | 1020 | 686 | 986 | 33.8 | 149 | ||
| 8 | Methyl anthranilate | 157 | 2.2 | 2780 | 13.7 | 1.8 | 17.7 | 125 | ||||
| 9 | Linalool | 136 | 658 | 363 | 2.8 | 22.5 | 372 | 3.33 | ||||
| 10 | Piperonal | 75.4 | 59.1 | 33.4 | 29.0 | 713 | 2.6 | 108 | 99.0 | 48.6 | ||
| 11 | Ethyl isovalerate | 60.9 | 485 | 331 | 30.8 | 297 | ||||||
| 12 |
| 59.0 | 189 | 169 | 589. | 82.5 | ||||||
| 13 |
| 52.2 | 160 | 85.0 | 9.4 | 6.8 | 483 | 4.40 | 225 | |||
| 14 | Methyl salicylate | 48.8 | ||||||||||
| 15 | γ-Undecalactone | 46.5 | 4.0 | 1.30 | 774 | |||||||
| 16 | γ-Decalactone | 43.7 | 235 | 128 | 192 | 65.2 | ||||||
| 17 | Furfuryl alcohol | 37.4 | 274 | 14.8 | 26.1 | 12.9 | 64.9 | |||||
| 18 | Raspberry ketone | 37.0 | 46.2 | 53.2 | 110 | 152 | 60.1 | 46.8 | ||||
| 19 | Ethyl hexanoate | 36.5 | 259 | 154 | 268. | |||||||
| 20 | Maltol | 36.4 | 19.2 | 12.4 | 11.6 | 80.5 | 6.1 | 156 | 5.8 | 5.5 | ||
| 21 | α-Terpineol | 35.9 | 43.6 | 22.4 | 8.1 | |||||||
| 22 | Benzaldehyde propylene glycol acetal | 30.4 | 97.5 | 100 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 11.4 | 2.7 | 5.1 | 30.0 | 1.9 | 106 |