NCT07102082NARecruitingAccepts Healthy Volunteers
Influence of Authorized Smokeless Tobacco Product Modified Risk Claims I: Consumer Product Demand
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Start Date
9/25/2025
Completion Date
9/30/2027
Summary
To explore consumer responses to the announcement and implementation of new modified risk claims for Copenhagen and General Snus (brands of smokeless tobacco (ST) products) using a series of complementary and innovative research activities and methods.
Detailed Description
Primary Objectives: To assess the influence of smokeless tobacco products' modified risk claims on: 1. Product demand (measured as willingness to pay in USD) using an experimental auction approach; and 2. Perceived risk of tobacco-associated diseases as assessed using questionnaire-based measures.
Eligibility Criteria
Age Range: 21 years to No maximum
Inclusion Criteria:
* Residing in one of the 8 counties of Western New York (Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Allegheny, Livingston, Genesee, Orleans, Wyoming).
* Smoke cigarettes every day, at least 5 cigarettes per day, for at least 1 year.
* Open to trying a non-combusted oral tobacco product.
* Have access to a device (ie: computer/tablet/smartphone) with internet capabilities to participate in an online survey study.
* Have the ability to read, write, and communicate in English.
* Participant must understand the investigational nature of this study and an Independent Ethics Committee/Institutional Review Board approved information sheet prior to receiving any study related procedure
Exclusion Criteria:
* Plan to quit smoking in the next 30 days.
* Use of smokeless tobacco at least weekly in the last 6 months.
* Lifetime use (that is, ever used at any time prior to the study) of Copenhagen or General Snus.
* Unwilling or unable to follow protocol requirements.
* Pregnant or planning to become pregnant (by self report)
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL
Modified Risk - None
BEHAVIORAL
Modified Risk Claim
Conditions
Smoking Behaviors
Locations
Roswell Park
Buffalo, New York 14206
United States