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CWRU researchers author paper on cigarillo use among young people

Four Case Western Reserve University researchers wrote a paper on their work on cigarillo use among young people. The paper, titled “A comparison of methods to measure daily cigarillo consumption among adolescents and young adults,” was published in Tobacco Control.

The four researchers are:

  • Elizabeth Antognoli, research associate at the Center for Community Health Integration;
  • Karen Ishler, senior research associate at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences;
  • Erika Trapl, associate professor of population and quantitative health sciences and associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods; and
  • Susan Flocke, the Gertrude Donnelly Hess MD Research Professor of Oncology.

About the paper

Cigarillo use is widespread among young people. Accurate assessment of cigarillo consumption is necessary to inform and evaluate tobacco research, but is complicated by product sharing and irregular use. This study compares a conventional approach with a detailed approach for measuring cigarillo consumption.

Read the article through the National Center for Biotechnology Information website.