@article{4df777ef0fe043e9bbd0b59e44866d92,
title = "Cessation behaviours among smokers of menthol and flavoured cigarettes following the implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive: findings from the EUREST-PLUS ITC Europe Surveys",
abstract = "The European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) introduced a ban on characterizing flavours in cigarettes (2016), including menthol (2020). The longitudinal data analysis of the EUREST-PLUS International Tobacco Control (ITC) Project Europe Surveys (n ¼ 16 534; Wave 1 in 2016 and Wave 2 in 2018) found significant but small declines in the weighted prevalence of menthol (by 0.94%; P ¼ 0.041) and other flavoured cigarette use (by 1.32%; P < 0.001) following the 2016 TPD. The declines tended to be driven primarily by the menthol and flavoured cigarette (MFC) smokers switching to unflavoured tobacco. Cigarette consumption declined between waves, but there were no statistically significant difference in decline between MFC and unflavoured tobacco smokers on smoking and cessation behaviours between the waves.",
keywords = "framework, FRAMEWORK",
author = "M. Zatonski and A. Herbec and W. Zatonski and K. Janik-Koncewicz and P. Driezen and T. Demjen and E. Fernandez and G.T. Fong and A.C.K. Quah and C.N. Kyriakos and A. McNeill and M. Willemsen and U. Mons and Y. Tountas and A.C. Trofor and C.I. Vardavas and K. Przewoiniak and {EUREST-PLUS consortium}",
note = "Funding Information: The EUREST-PLUS project has received funding from the European Union?s Horizon 2020 research and innovation pro-gramme under grant agreement No 681109 (CIV) and the University of Waterloo (GTF). Additional support was provided to the University of Waterloo by a foundation grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FDN-148477). GTF was supported by a Senior Investigator Grant from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. EF is partly supported by Ministry of Universities and Research, Government of Catalonia (2017SGR319) and by the Instituto Carlos III and co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) (INT16/00211 and INT17/00103), Government of Spain. EF thanks CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya for the institutional support to IDIBELL. The England arm of the ITC 4 Country Smoking and Vaping Survey was supported by grants from the US National Cancer Institute (P01 CA200512) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FDN-148477). The ITC Netherlands Surveys were supported by the Dutch Cancer Foundation (KWF) (UM 2014-7210). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.",
year = "2020",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/eurpub/ckaa050",
language = "English",
volume = "30",
pages = "III34--III37",
journal = "European Journal of Public Health",
issn = "1101-1262",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
}