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- Title
Menthol cigarettes and health risks in Lung Health Study data.
- Authors
Murray, Robert P.; Connett, John E.; Skeans, Melissa A.; Tashkin, Donald P.
- Abstract
Whether menthol cigarettes confer a higher risk of death than plain cigarettes is not known. The Lung Health Study (LHS) enrolled 5,887 adult smokers in a clinical trial of smoking cessation and ipratropium in the prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. LHS participants have been subjected to surveillance for mortality from all causes for 14 years. We examined these data for differences between self-reported smokers of menthol cigarettes versus plain cigarettes. Using proportional hazards regression methods, we found no differences in hazard ratios for coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, or death from any cause. Contrary to expectations about nicotine dependence, we found that users of menthol cigarettes had smoked fewer pack-years at baseline. We found no difference in success at smoking cessation with or without menthol. We conclude that our data contain no evidence that mentholation of cigarettes increases the hazards of smoking.
- Subjects
SMOKING; OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases; MEDICAL research; MEDICAL experimentation on humans; CLINICAL trials; CLINICAL medicine; SMOKING cessation; HEART diseases; TOBACCO
- Publication
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2007, Vol 9, Issue 1, p101
- ISSN
1462-2203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/14622200601078418