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In addition, very few smokers realize that added sugar increases the toxins contained in cigarette smoke, the researchers wrote in the Journal of Nicotine and Tobacco Research.
Cigarettes contain natural sugar, added to reduce the smell of smoke and facilitate inhalation.
"It also increases the amount of harmful chemicals in the smoke and smoking potential," said Andrew Seidenberg, principal investigator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Many participants told us that they wanted to know more about sugar in cigarettes (…) and that there is therefore an opportunity to teach people," he said. he told Reuters by e-mail.
Seidenberg and his colleagues interviewed 4350 adult smokers who used them via Amazon Mechanical Turk to participate in an online experiment on advertising for electronic cigarettes.
At the end of the experiment, participants answered questions about added sugars in cigarettes: "Is sugar added to cigarettes?" And "Does adding sugar to cigarettes increase toxins from cigarette smoke?" "Before this survey, did you hear that added sugar effect?"
The researchers found that 5.5% of participants were aware of the addition of sugar in cigarettes, while only 3.8% knew that the added sugar increased the toxins in the smoke.
"We were really surprised to find that almost all participants did not know that sugar had been added to cigarettes," Seidenberg said.
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In addition, very few smokers realize that added sugar increases the toxins contained in cigarette smoke, the researchers wrote in the Journal of Nicotine and Tobacco Research.
Cigarettes contain natural sugar, added to reduce the smell of smoke and facilitate inhalation.
"It also increases the amount of harmful chemicals in the smoke and smoking potential," said Andrew Seidenberg, principal investigator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Many participants told us that they wanted to know more about sugar in cigarettes (…) and that there is therefore an opportunity to teach people," he said. he told Reuters by e-mail.
Seidenberg and his colleagues interviewed 4350 adult smokers who used them via Amazon Mechanical Turk to participate in an online experiment on advertising for electronic cigarettes.
At the end of the experiment, participants answered questions about added sugars in cigarettes: "Is sugar added to cigarettes?" And "Does adding sugar to cigarettes increase toxins from cigarette smoke?" "Before this survey, did you hear that added sugar effect?"
The researchers found that 5.5% of participants were aware of the addition of sugar in cigarettes, while only 3.8% knew that the added sugar increased the toxins in the smoke.
"We were really surprised to find that almost all participants did not know that sugar had been added to cigarettes," Seidenberg said.
