E-cigarette use among early adolescent tobacco cigarette smokers
Kelly BC, Vuolo M, Maggs J, et al. E-cigarette use among early adolescent tobacco cigarette smokers: testing the disruption and entrenchment hypotheses in two longitudinal cohorts. Epub ahead of print: 18 April 2023. doi:10.1136/tc-2022-057717
“Youth who smoked tobacco cigarettes by early adolescence (before age 15) were selected from the ongoing UK Millennium Cohort Study (n=1090) and the US Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (n=803) study… Among youth who were early cigarette smokers, 57% of UK and 58% of US youth also used e-cigarettes. The odds of later adolescent smoking among early smoking youth were significantly higher among e-cigarette users relative to those who had not used e-cigarettes (adjusted OR (AOR) UK=1.45; USA=2.19) … Conclusions: Despite national differences in e-cigarette regulation and marketing, there is evidence e-cigarette use among early adolescent smokers in the UK, and USA leads to higher odds of any smoking and more frequent tobacco cigarette use later in adolescence.”
https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/tobaccocontrol/early/2023/03/20/tc-2022-057717.full.pdf
Stephen Hamann
