1. Roll-your-own cigarette use in Italy: sales and consumer profile—data from PASSI surveillance, 2015–2016
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Carla Bietta, B Contoli, Silvano Gallus, Gianluigi Ferrante, Paolo D'Argenio, Valentina Minardi, Lorenzo Spizzichino, and Maria Masocco
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Health (social science) ,Adolescent ,Cigarette use ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Tobacco Smoking ,medicine ,Financial strain ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,030505 public health ,Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ,Public health ,Commerce ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Tobacco Products ,Middle Aged ,Italy ,Socioeconomic Factors ,Tobacco sales ,Female ,Business ,Surveillance and monitoring ,0305 other medical science ,Forecasting ,Demography - Abstract
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. 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. 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. 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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- 2019
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