Trajectories and determinants of adolescents’ nicotine product use risk among U.S.
Kwon E, Adams Z, Seo DC. Trajectories and determinants of adolescents’ nicotine product use risk among U.S. adolescents in a nationally representative sample of longitudinal cohort. Addict Behav. 2020 Dec 31;116:106812. Online ahead of print.“For adolescents, who were 12-17 years old at baseline (N = 10,086), 5 trajectory groups emerged: (1) nonusers (73.7%); (2) stable low to moderate risk of developing poly use (5.0%); (3) gradual increase in risk of poly use (12.8%); (4) rapid linear increase in risk of poly use until Wave 3 and then plateauing for cigarettes or slightly diminishing for e-cigarettes and other tobacco products at Wave 4 (4.6%); and (5) stable moderate to high risk of poly use (3.9%)… Conclusions: The current study findings imply that the majority of adolescents who initiated any nicotine product use have an elevated risk of transitioning to poly users.”
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Stephen Hamann
