menthol cigarettes and covid-19 Advocacy: Youth Vaping Prevention in the Time of COVID – WCAAP COVID-19 pandemic impacting smoking prevalence

Marton J

Chemosphere 311 , 137049 (2023)

ENDS, HTPs and ONPs are marketed primarily in high-income countries, while tobacco products such as cigarettes remain heavily promoted in LMICs.128 129 An important question moving forward is the extent to which ENDS, HTPs or ONPs could be attractive to users of non-cigarette, combusted tobacco products (cigars, pipes, waterpipes, bidi, kretek) and users of traditional higher nitrosamine smokeless tobacco products

Firstly, in much of North America and Western Europe, the biggest cause of premature death, defined as death before 70 years, is the smoking of manufactured cigarettes