Dina Jones Co-Authors Public Health Study on Smoking

2017 Feb 6

Dina Jones, of Temple, co-authored a study on "Association between menthol-flavoured cigarette smoking and flavoured little cigar and cigarillo use among African-American, Hispanic, and white young and middle-aged adult smokers."

The study, published in Tobacco Control, provided evidence to the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] that the availability and use of menthol-flavored cigarettes threatens the public's health by increasing the risk of dual use with flavored LCCs among cigarette smokers and that increased dual use of both kinds of tobacco products may widen health disparities by elevating rates of tobacco-caused death and disease among African-Americans and Latinos.