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Published before final editing as: Tob Control. 2023 Jan 2:tobaccocontrol-2022-057553. doi: 10.1136/tc-2022-057553

Table 3.

Association of pH with Appeal and Sensory Attributes

	Outcome	Linear trend		Quadratic trend
	Outcome	𝛽 (95% CI)	p-value	𝛽 (95% CI)	p-value
Appeal	Liking	−2.8 (−3.5, −2.0)	< .001	−1.0 (−1.9, −0.1)	.035
	Disliking	3.4 (2.6, 4.2)	< .001	1.3 (0.4, 2.3)	.008
	Willingness to use again	−2.7 (−3.6, −1.9)	< .001	−1.4 (−2.4, −0.5)	.006
Sensory attributes	Sweetness	−2.3 (−3.1, −1.6)	< .001	−0.9 (−1.8, −0.9)	.035
	Smoothness	−4.6 (−5.4, −3.8)	< .001	−2.4 (−3.3, −1.5)	< .001
	Bitterness	3.3 (2.6, 4.0)	< .001	2.0 (1.1, 2.8)	< .001
	Harshness	5.2 (4.4, 6.0)	< .001	3.3 (2.3, 4.2)	< .001

Note. Models controlled for flavor. P-values were corrected for multiple testing to control the false-discovery rate using the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure.