Valentina Minardi1, Gianluigi Ferrante2, Paolo D'Argenio3, Maria Masocco1, Lorenzo Spizzichino4, Carla Bietta5, Benedetta Contoli1, Silvano Gallus6. 1. National Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy. 2. National Center for Drug Research and Evaluation, National Institute of Public Health, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Rome, Italy. gianluigi.ferrante@iss.it. 3. , Rome, Italy. 4. Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Italian Ministry of Health, Rome, Italy. 5. Local Health Unit 2 of Umbria, Prevention Department, Epidemiology Unit, Perugia, Italy. 6. Department of Environmental Health Sciences, IRCCS - Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", Milan, Italy.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The use of roll-your-own (RYO) cigarette has substantially increased in most high-income countries recently. This work aims to update Italian trends on loose tobacco sales and to describe the consumer profile of predominant RYO users. METHODS: Data from the Italian Agency of Customs and State Monopolies and from PASSI (Italian behavioral risk factor surveillance system) were used. Information on 16,858 interviews to current smokers aged 18-69 was analyzed. RESULTS: Sales of loose tobacco increased more than sevenfold between 2004 and 2017. In 2015-2016, 11.6% of smokers reported smoking predominantly RYO cigarettes, with higher percentages among the youngest where a significant association between use of RYO and education was observed, unlike what happened in older adults. The association between economic difficulties and use of RYO was observed only in older adults. CONCLUSIONS: A growing trend in RYO cigarette sales was registered between 2004 and 2017. In young smokers, the greater use of RYO was observed among the most educated regardless of financial strain, while in older ones among those with economic difficulties.
OBJECTIVES: The use of roll-your-own (RYO) cigarette has substantially increased in most high-income countries recently. This work aims to update Italian trends on loose tobacco sales and to describe the consumer profile of predominant RYO users. METHODS: Data from the Italian Agency of Customs and State Monopolies and from PASSI (Italian behavioral risk factor surveillance system) were used. Information on 16,858 interviews to current smokers aged 18-69 was analyzed. RESULTS: Sales of loose tobacco increased more than sevenfold between 2004 and 2017. In 2015-2016, 11.6% of smokers reported smoking predominantly RYO cigarettes, with higher percentages among the youngest where a significant association between use of RYO and education was observed, unlike what happened in older adults. The association between economic difficulties and use of RYO was observed only in older adults. CONCLUSIONS: A growing trend in RYO cigarette sales was registered between 2004 and 2017. In young smokers, the greater use of RYO was observed among the most educated regardless of financial strain, while in older ones among those with economic difficulties.
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Hand-rolled/RYO tobacco; Price; Public policy; Surveillance and monitoring; Taxation
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