Table 2.

Example Quotations Based on Themes Related to the Use of Cigars for Blunts

Main Themes	Subthemes	Example Quotations	Sex/age group
Terms Used for Blunts	N/A	“I usually call them by the brand name. Like yea, Swishers or Dutch Master or whatever.”	Male young adult
Cigar Product Features That Are Useful for Blunts	Cigars Used Primarily for Blunts	“It’s mostly like weed and stuff that they use it for. They don’t really use the cigar just to really smoke the cigar.”	Female adolescent
		“I don’t know a lot of people who smoke them with the tobacco in them, like almost everybody I know smokes them with like weed in them. So obviously, I feel like if they advertised it would be like advertising weed indirectly.”	Female adolescent
	Cigar Brands Used for Blunts	“Well, no those are two different things basically. Like we use Entourage and Games to roll up, like no one uses a Black to roll up.”	Female adolescent
	The Role of Cigar Wrappers in Blunts	“You cut it straight down, and most, some dutches, they’ll have like a line, if you look around there will be a line, it will be easier for you to crack, not that you’re cracking, you dump all the guts out and put in the weed and roll it up.”	Male adolescent
		“It’s (referring to ZigZag) for beginners, you don’t have to crack them.”	Female young adult
	The Role Of Cigar Flavors in Blunts	“Personally like I said, I only taste it on my lips. I don’t taste it when I’m smoking it and when I’m smoking all I smell is the weed”	Female adolescent
		“It’s like you’re smoking like grape flavored weed.”	Female young adult
	Harm Perceptions Regarding the Inner Wrapper	“You get cancer from it, it’s pretty self-explanatory.”	Male adolescent
		“It’s just more of a known fact that people say oh just take that off, don’t forget that.”	Male adolescent
		“I don’t really know what it is but I know a lot of people peel off the inner layer, peel it off because they say it’s better for you and that that inner layer is the cancer paper part so they just use the outside of the leaf.”	Female adolescent
	The Role of Tobacco in Blunts	“I have to agree with both of them because cigarettes you smoke the tobacco, but in a dutch you actually take it out which is like less chemicals and stuff.”	Female young adult
		“I used to spliff it a lot with like clove cigarettes. It was like a very nice combination I found. And you could kind of smoke them in public and people would give you a side eye but it’s a clove cigarette.”	Male young adult
		“Like it gets the same effect from a cigarette while you’re smoking [blunts] or after you smoke [blunts], it gives you the cigarette high on top of the already high you are, so it kind of like just keeps you at that level.”	Female young adult
Use of Blunts Relative to Other Marijuana Use Methods	Easy Accessibility	“I’m seventeen but I know a lot of times my friends will buy them for me or I have older sisters. But there are some places they’ll be like, Oh, you’re eighteen?’ .And you tell them, ‘yes’. They’ll be like, ‘okay.’”	Female adolescent
	Social Reasons	“Everyone…I would say from athletes to honor students…nerds that just hit the books and like everybody [uses blunts].”	Male adolescent
		“It’s just around you like the most, you don’t you see a lot of people with papers.Like, I don’t see a lot of people with papers [referring to cigarette papers], everybody, they got a dutch.”	Male adolescent
	Presence of Blunts On Social Media	“I looked up [on YouTube] how to roll like, not, like, normal stuff. Like did, like, a cross joint. Like a tulip [referring to names of different blunt rolling methods].”	Male adolescent
	Presence Of Blunts In Music Videos	“In music videos, right. They sometimes like be waving up the dutch, like for example, like Backwoods that’s what they mostly use now, like celebrities.”	Male adolescent
	Easy Accessibility	“Dutches are easier to get than papers [ie, cigarette paper].”	Male adolescent
	Easy to Roll	“And it’s [referring to cigarette paper] harder to use too. Some people like, even for me I’ve rolled them sometimes good sometimes bad. Some days, I’m like you know what? Forget it I am just going to go back to dutch, I can’t roll papers.”	Male young adult
	Burns Slow	“Cigars burn slower so. So when you’re smoking, it’s like your high lasts long because you’re getting high and you’re still smoking…”	Female young adult