Electronic Cigarette Unit Price Manipulations in the Experimental Tobacco Marketplace

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-09-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) may be a safer alternative to conventional cigarettes and are available in a broad range of nicotine strengths. The overall goal of this project is to use an experimental analogue of the real-world tobacco marketplace to examine the effects of nicotine strength on e-cigarette consumption and the likelihood that current smokers will either switch to e-cigarettes (which may reduce harm) or use both products in combination (which may increase harm). Testing effects of e-cigarette nicotine strength under controlled conditions in a context that models the real world will facilitate evidence-based policies that have a net benefit to health.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Current cigarette smoker

• Current e-cigarette user (dual users arm) or have minimal prior e-cigarette experience (exclusive smokers arm)

• Cotinine levels that confirm tobacco use

• Willing to try e-cigarettes

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unstable psychiatric or medical conditions

• Immediate plans to quit smoking

• Use of prescription medication that might affect smoking or nicotine metabolism

• Pregnancy (females)