Understanding Tobacco Regulations for Smokers
This study is looking at how different tobacco regulations might affect adults who smoke cigarettes, both daily and occasionally. Researchers want to see how people react when certain products aren't available in a simulated online store. Specifically, they're testing environments where only reduced nicotine content cigarettes are available, or where flavored combustible (burnable) or noncombustible (like vapes) nicotine products are restricted. The goal is to understand how these changes influence purchasing decisions. You can join if you are at least 18 years old, smoke cigarettes 4-30 days a month, don't plan to quit, and can read English. The study aims to understand how people change their buying habits under these different rules.
- Study design
- This interventional study plans to enroll 900 participants. It involves comparing how people respond to different regulatory environments in a simulated marketplace.
- What's involved
- You will complete online surveys and tests, and participate in online shopping sessions in a simulated Experimental Tobacco Marketplace. This is a single assessment.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Not specified.
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Responses of Adults Smoking Nondaily and Daily in the Experimental Tobacco Marketplace
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Bethany Shorey Fennell, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of Kentucky
Who to contact
This trial hasn't published a contact. View it on ClinicalTrials.gov
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Inclusion
What this trial measures
- Aggregate behavioral economic demand across all participants under the proposed regulatory environmentsBaseline
Participants will complete trials of the Experimental Tobacco Marketplace wherein the price of a target commodity will be increased. Nonlinear mixed effects modeling will be used to fit a curve to estimate the number of products purchased at each price and the analysis will result in an measure of overall price sensitivity under each of the regulatory conditions.
- Aggregate behavioral economic substitution across all participants under the proposed regulatory environmentsBaseline
Participants will complete trials of the Experimental Tobacco Marketplace wherein the price of alternative products will be fixed across trials and their usual product will change price. Mixed effects modeling will be used to fit a curve to estimate the slopes and intercepts of these alternative products, revealing the degree to which participants will choose to purchase each alternative product as the price of the participant's usual product increases.