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Assessing the Health and Economic Impact of a Potential Menthol Cigarette Ban in New York City: a Modeling Study.
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Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
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2021-11-09
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98
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6
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742
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751
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Menthol in cigarettes increases nicotine dependence and decreases the chances of successful smoking cessation. In New York City (NYC), nearly half of current smokers usually smoke menthol cigarettes. Female and non-Latino Black individuals were more likely to smoke menthol-flavored cigarettes compared to males and other races and ethnicities. Although the US Food and Drug Administration recently announced that it will ban menthol cigarettes, it is unclear how the policy would affect population health and health disparities in NYC. To inform potential policymaking, we used a microsimulation model of cardiovascular disease (CVD) to project the long-term health and economic impact of a potential menthol ban in NYC. Our model projected that there could be 57,232 (95% CI: 51,967-62,497) myocardial infarction (MI) cases and 52,195 (95% CI: 47,446-56,945) stroke cases per 1 million adult smokers in NYC over a 20-year period without the menthol ban policy. With the menthol ban policy, 2,862 MI cases and 1,983 stroke cases per 1 million adults could be averted over a 20-year period. The model also projected that an average of $1,836 in healthcare costs per person, or $1.62 billion among all adult smokers, could be saved over a 20-year period due to the implementation of a menthol ban policy. Results from subgroup analyses showed that women, particularly Black women, would have more reductions in adverse CVD outcomes from the potential implementation of the menthol ban policy compared to males and other racial and ethnic subgroups, which implies that the policy could reduce sex and racial and ethnic CVD disparities. Findings from our study provide policymakers with evidence to support policies that limit access to menthol cigarettes and potentially address racial and ethnic disparities in smoking-related disease burden.
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Li Y, Sisti J, Flórez KR, Albrecht SS, Viswanath A, Davila M, Cantrell J, Brahmbhatt D, Thompson AB, Jasek J, Chambers EC. Assessing the Health and Economic Impact of a Potential Menthol Cigarette Ban in New York City: a Modeling Study. J Urban Health. 2021 Dec;98(6):742-751. doi: 10.1007/s11524-021-00581-8. Epub 2021 Nov 9. Erratum in: J Urban Health. 2021 Dec 10;: PMID: 34751902; PMCID: PMC8688642.