OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to examine intraindividual differences in smoking behavior between smoking regular and mentholated cigarettes. METHODS: Healthy male smokers (n = 29) smoked either a regular or a mentholated cigarette in two separate sessions 1 week apart. Commercial brands with comparable tar, nicotine, and CO content were used. Smoking behavior was constrained by fixed 15-second interpuff intervals, but puff volume and number of puffs were unconstrained. RESULTS: When smoking the non-mentholated brand of cigarettes, participants smoked 22% more puffs and had 13% higher mean volumes per puff than they did when smoking the mentholated brand of cigarettes. The aggregate 39% excess exposure to cigarette smoke in the regular-cigarette condition was not accompanied by commensurate excesses in expired carbon monoxide or in physiological measures normally correlated with nicotine exposure. CONCLUSIONS: These findings parallel differences in physiological correlates of exposure to nicotine found in cross-sectional comparisons of African-American and White smokers and are consistent with the results of emerging laboratory investigations.
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to examine intraindividual differences in smoking behavior between smoking regular and mentholated cigarettes. METHODS: Healthy male smokers (n = 29) smoked either a regular or a mentholated cigarette in two separate sessions 1 week apart. Commercial brands with comparable tar, nicotine, and CO content were used. Smoking behavior was constrained by fixed 15-second interpuff intervals, but puff volume and number of puffs were unconstrained. RESULTS: When smoking the non-mentholated brand of cigarettes, participants smoked 22% more puffs and had 13% higher mean volumes per puff than they did when smoking the mentholated brand of cigarettes. The aggregate 39% excess exposure to cigarette smoke in the regular-cigarette condition was not accompanied by commensurate excesses in expired carbon monoxide or in physiological measures normally correlated with nicotine exposure. CONCLUSIONS: These findings parallel differences in physiological correlates of exposure to nicotine found in cross-sectional comparisons of African-American and White smokers and are consistent with the results of emerging laboratory investigations.
Authors: N H Caskey; M E Jarvik; W J McCarthy; M R Rosenblatt; T M Gross; C L Carpenter Journal: Pharmacol Biochem Behav Date: 1993-10 Impact factor: 3.533
Authors: L E Wagenknecht; G R Cutter; N J Haley; S Sidney; T A Manolio; G H Hughes; D R Jacobs Journal: Am J Public Health Date: 1990-09 Impact factor: 9.308
Authors: G L Day; W J Blot; D F Austin; L Bernstein; R S Greenberg; S Preston-Martin; J B Schoenberg; D M Winn; J K McLaughlin; J F Fraumeni Journal: J Natl Cancer Inst Date: 1993-03-17 Impact factor: 13.506
Authors: Karen L Cropsey; Michael F Weaver; Gloria D Eldridge; Gabriela C Villalobos; Al M Best; Maxine L Stitzer Journal: Nicotine Tob Res Date: 2009-04-22 Impact factor: 4.244
Authors: Allison J Lazard; Sarah D Kowitt; Li-Ling Huang; Seth M Noar; Kristen L Jarman; Adam O Goldstein Journal: Nicotine Tob Res Date: 2018-06-07 Impact factor: 4.244
Authors: Miranda R Jones; Benjamin J Apelberg; Maria Tellez-Plaza; Jonathan M Samet; Ana Navas-Acien Journal: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev Date: 2012-12-18 Impact factor: 4.254
Authors: Ping-Ching Hsu; Renny S Lan; Theodore M Brasky; Catalin Marian; Amrita K Cheema; Habtom W Ressom; Christopher A Loffredo; Wallace B Pickworth; Peter G Shields Journal: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev Date: 2016-09-14 Impact factor: 4.254
Authors: Andrew A Strasser; Rebecca L Ashare; Madeline Kaufman; Kathy Z Tang; A Clementina Mesaros; Ian A Blair Journal: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev Date: 2013-01-18 Impact factor: 4.254