When making the announcement, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said that the proposed rules would help prevent children from becoming the next generation of smokers and help adult smokers quit. The FDA's proposal to ban menthol cigarettes, flavored cigars is being applauded by advocates and doctors
Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
Averaging syndicated data from IRI and Nielsen, industry standard data sets, we see cigarette volumes have experienced a year-over-year decline greater than 5 percent in each of the last 4 months a trend that has not been seen in the past 5 years of available data
Variability in accuracy was mainly attributed to heterogeneity of eligibility criteria, screening protocols (eg, number of screening rounds, screening intervals), follow-up length (eg, to identify false-negative screens), and definitions (eg, of positive tests, indeterminate tests)