{"doi":"10.1093/ntr/ntaa224","title":"Menthol and Mint Cigarettes and Cigars: Initiation and Progression in Youth, Young Adults and Adults in Waves 1–4 of the PATH Study, 2013–2017","abstract":"INTRODUCTION: This study examined in youth (12-17 years), young adults (18-24 years), and adults (25+ years): (1) the prevalence of the first menthol cigarette and menthol/mint cigar use among new tobacco users; (2) association between the first menthol/mint use, subsequent tobacco use, and nicotine dependence ~1 year later compared with the first non-menthol/mint use. AIMS AND METHODS: Longitudinal analysis of data from Waves 1 to 4 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study (2013-2017; 10 086 youth and 21 281 adults). Main outcome measures were past 12-month and past 30-day cigarette and cigar use, and nicotine dependence. RESULTS: Youth and young adult new cigarette users are more likely to smoke a menthol cigarette or indicate that they do not know the flavor compared with adults aged 25+. A greater proportion of adults aged 25+ first used menthol/mint-flavored cigars (13.4%) compared with youth (8.5%) and young adults (7.4%). Among young adults, first use of a menthol cigarette is associated with past 12-month use of cigarettes at the subsequent wave and first use of any menthol/mint-flavored cigars is associated with past 30-day use of these products at the subsequent wave in both youth and young adults. In youth and adults, there were no significant relationships between first use of a menthol/mint cigarette or cigar and nicotine dependence scores at a subsequent wave in multivariable analyses. CONCLUSIONS: The first use of menthol/mint cigarettes and cigars is associated with subsequent cigarette and cigar use in young people aged 12-24. IMPLICATIONS: This study examined the relationship between initiation with menthol cigarettes and menthol/mint cigars, subsequent tobacco use, and nicotine dependence in US youth, young adults, and adults who participated in Waves 1-4 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health study. New use of menthol cigarettes was associated with greater past 12-month cigarette use in young adults and new use of menthol/mint-flavored cigars was associated with greater past 30-day cigar use in youth and young adults compared with non-menthol use. Initiation with menthol/mint cigarette and cigar products may lead to subsequent use of those products.","journal":"Nicotine & Tobacco Research","year":2020,"id":93502,"datarank":0.5570358100056463,"base_score":3.713572066704308,"endowment":3.713572066704308,"self_citation_contribution":0.5570358100056463,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.5570358100056463,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":40,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9501,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2020-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":467031,"name":"Amanda L. Johnson","orcid":"0000-0003-2319-2159","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":292400,"name":"Michael J. Halenar","orcid":"0000-0002-8703-3811","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":292399,"name":"Eva Sharma","orcid":"0000-0002-1328-508X","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":304693,"name":"K. Michael Cummings","orcid":"0000-0002-7103-7017","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":292398,"name":"Cassandra A. Stanton","orcid":"0000-0001-5329-6261","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":304694,"name":"Cristine D. Delnevo","orcid":"0000-0001-9597-4307","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":310224,"name":"Olivia A Wackowski","orcid":"0000-0001-9159-5473","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":292403,"name":"Maansi Bansal‐Travers","orcid":"0000-0002-7944-3570","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":423518,"name":"Jennifer Pearson","orcid":"0000-0002-1400-5932","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":304690,"name":"David B. Abrams","orcid":"0000-0002-0868-4350","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":320568,"name":"Raymond Niaura","orcid":"0000-0002-0856-3540","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":304698,"name":"Geoffrey T. Fong","orcid":"0000-0001-9098-6472","position":12,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":304695,"name":"Tara Elton‐Marshall","orcid":"0000-0002-1674-8588","position":13,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":252495,"name":"Dorothy K. Hatsukami","orcid":"0000-0002-1108-2609","position":14,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":272650,"name":"Dennis R. Trinidad","orcid":null,"position":15,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":310225,"name":"Annette R. Kaufman","orcid":"0000-0002-6696-7025","position":16,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":339734,"name":"Michael D. Sawdey","orcid":"0000-0003-4146-6897","position":17,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":468392,"name":"Ethel V. Taylor","orcid":null,"position":18,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":468393,"name":"Wendy I. Slavit","orcid":null,"position":19,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":339736,"name":"Olga Rass","orcid":"0000-0002-6651-7358","position":20,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":236280,"name":"Wilson M. Compton","orcid":"0000-0003-3108-5118","position":21,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":292407,"name":"Andrew Hyland","orcid":"0009-0009-6318-9932","position":22,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":236749,"name":"Andrea C. Villanti","orcid":"0000-0003-3104-966X","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":21,"raw_metadata":{"citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-07-18T22:31:34.149524Z","pmid":"33159209","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}