Data: Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study Public Use Files (PUF), Waves 14 1 Model controlled for sex, age, race/ethnicity, annual family income, Census region, past-month cigarette use, past-month e-cigarette use, past-month other tobacco use, past-month alcohol use, past-month drug use, living with a tobacco user, and recent internalizing and externalizing problems 2 Model controlled for past-month traditional cigar use 3 Model controlled for past-month cigarillo use 4 Model controlled for past-month filtered cigar use Initiation of Combustible Tobacco or Any Three Tobacco Products Only We next estimated the association between past-year blunt use and starting to use combustible tobacco (cigarettes or cigars), similar to Mayer et al
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Furthermore, natural degradation decreases the nicotine content in the leaves, contributing to a milder cigar taste and reducing their harshness (Jia et al., 2023)
They are also weighted to match the national demographics of gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, population density, and phone status (cellphone only/landline only/both, and cellphone mostly)