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Researchers examine ‘phantom’ smoker status in young cigarillo consumers

PUBLICATIONS + PRESENTATIONS | September 27, 2019
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

Researchers at ϳԹ recently co-authored a piece titled “’Phantom smokers’: Young cigarillo users who do not identify as smokers.” Their piece was published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

The researchers were:

  • Rock Lim, now a student;
  • Karen J. Ishler, senior research associate at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences;
  • Erika S. Trapl, associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences and associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods; and
  • Susan Flocke, former associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods.

The research examined the prevalence and characteristics of those who use non-cigarette tobacco products but do not identify as smokers. These individuals often fail to recognize the health risks associated with usage and feel little push to quit.