Table 1.
Tobacco products used for this study
No | Type | Brand | Expected flavour | |
Expected characterising flavour products | 1 | Roll-your-own | RYO-TP2 | Menthol |
2 | Cigarette | Cig-TP13 | Menthol | |
3 | Cigarette | Cig-TP2 | Menthol | |
4 | Cigarette | Cig-TP1 | Menthol | |
5 | Cigarette | Cig-TP14 | Menthol | |
6 | Cigarette | Cig-TP15 | Menthol | |
7 | Cigarette | Cig-TP5 | Cherry | |
8 | Cigarette | Cig-TP16 | Vanilla | |
9 | Roll-your-own | RYO-TP3 | Vanilla | |
10 | Roll-your-own | RYO-TP1 | Vanilla | |
11 | Cigarette | Cig-TP4* | Vanilla | |
12 | Cigarette | Cig-TP8* | Chocolate | |
13 | Cigarette | Cig-TP7* | Unknown | |
14 | Cigarette | Cig-TP9 | Apple | |
15 | Cigarette | Cig-TP12 | Strawberry | |
16 | Cigarette | Cig-TP10 | Honey | |
17 | Cigarette | Cig-TP11 | Mango | |
18 | Cigarette | Cig-TP17 | Mango | |
19 | Cigarette | Cig-TP18 | Pina Colada | |
20 | Cigarette | Cig-TP19 | Mojito | |
21 | Cigarette | Cig-TP6* | Chocolate | |
22 | Cigarette | Cig-TP3* | Chocolate | |
Expected non-characterising flavour products | 23 | Cigarette | Cig-RP1 | Tobacco |
24 | Cigarette | Cig-RP2 | Tobacco | |
25 | Cigarette | Cig-RP3 | Tobacco | |
26 | Cigarette | Cig-RP4 | Tobacco | |
27 | Cigarette | Cig-RP5 | Tobacco | |
28 | Cigarette | Cig-RP6 | Tobacco | |
Reference products | 29 | Cigarette | Coresta Monitor 6 (CM6) | - |
30 | Cigarette | University of Kentucky (3R4F) | - | |
31 | Leaves | American Virginia flue cured 2013 | - | |
32 | Leaves | Un-cut Burley | - | |
33 | Leaves | Semi-Oriental 456 | - |
*The flavour of these products could not be inferred from the product packages. These products were included based on information from employees in tobacco shops and the internet (Cig-TP4 and Cig-TP8, the colourful design of the package (Cig-TP7), or ingredient lists that manufacturers annually send to the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)10 (Cig-TP6 and Cig-TP3).