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A method for comparing the impact on carcinogenicity of tobacco products : a case study on heated tobacco versus cigarettes

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01/05/2020
Author
Slob, Wout
Soeteman-Hernández, Lya G
Wieneke , Bil
Staal, Yvonne C M
Stephens, William E
Talhout, Reinskje
Keywords
Tobacco products
Carcinogenicity
Heated tobacco
Cumulative exposure
Relative potency
RA Public aspects of medicine
3rd-DAS
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Abstract
Comparing the harmful health effects related to two different tobacco products by applying common risk assessment methods to each individual compound is problematic. We developed a method that circumvents some of these problems by focusing on the change in cumulative exposure (CCE) of the compounds emitted by the two products considered. The method consists of six steps. The first three steps encompass dose‐response analysis of cancer data, resulting in relative potency factors with confidence intervals. The fourth step evaluates emission data, resulting in confidence intervals for the expected emission of each compound. The fifth step calculates the change in CCE, probabilistically, resulting in an uncertainty range for the CCE. The sixth step estimates the associated health impact by combining the CCE with relevant dose‐response information. As an illustrative case study, we applied the method to eight carcinogens occurring both in the emissions of heated tobacco products (HTPs), a novel class of tobacco products, and tobacco smoke. The CCE was estimated to be 10‐ to 25‐fold lower when using HTPs instead of cigarettes. Such a change indicates a substantially smaller reduction in expected life span, based on available dose‐response information in smokers. However, this is a preliminary conclusion, as only eight carcinogens were considered so far. Furthermore, an unfavorable health impact related to HTPs remains as compared to complete abstinence. Our method results in useful information that may help policy makers in better understanding the potential health impact of new tobacco and related products. A similar approach can be used to compare the carcinogenicity of other mixtures.
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Slob , W , Soeteman-Hernández , L G , Wieneke , B , Staal , Y C M , Stephens , W E & Talhout , R 2020 , ' A method for comparing the impact on carcinogenicity of tobacco products : a case study on heated tobacco versus cigarettes ' , Risk Analysis , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13482
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Risk Analysis
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13482
ISSN
1539-6924
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Risk Analysis published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Risk Analysis This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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This work was funded by the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19883

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