ArticleAmerican journal of public health2015
The Impact of Trying Electronic Cigarettes on Cigarette Smoking by College Students: A Prospective Analysis.
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- Overview of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: A Systematic Review.American journal of preventive medicine · 2017Pooled it
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- What differentiates youths who use e-cigarettes from those who smoke traditional tobacco products?BMC public health · 2022Article
- Trajectories of e-cigarette advertising exposure, e-cigarette use and cigarette smoking in a sample of young adults from Hawaii.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Article
- Differential Associations between Weight Status (Obesity, Overweight, and Underweight) and Substance Use in Young Adulthood.Substance use & misuse · 2022Article
- Changes in knowledge, perceptions and use of JUUL among a cohort of young adults.Tobacco control · 2021Article
- Body esteem, weight-control outcome expectancies, and e-cigarette use among young adults.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021Article
- Electronic Cigarette Use and Its Relationship with Smoking and Alcohol and Illicit Drug Consumption among Romanian University Students.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
- Psychological and Demographic Predictors of Vaping and Vaping Susceptibility in Young Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Social media's influence on e-cigarette use onset and escalation among young adults: What beliefs mediate the effects?Addictive behaviors · 2021Article
- Electronic cigarette use and smoking cessation in cohort studies and randomized trials: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2021Review
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Abstract
objectivesWe assessed the impact of trying electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) on future cigarette smoking in a sample of smokers enrolled in college.
methodsIn this longitudinal study, first-semester college students at 7 colleges in North Carolina and 4 in Virginia completed a baseline survey and 5 follow-up surveys between fall 2010 and fall 2013. Current cigarette smoking at wave 6 was the primary outcome. Participants (n = 271) reported current cigarette smoking at baseline and no history of e-cigarette use. We measured trying e-cigarettes at each wave, defined as use in the past 6 months.
resultsBy wave 5, 43.5% had tried e-cigarettes. Even after controlling for other variables associated with cigarette smoking, trying e-cigarettes was a significant predictor of cigarette smoking at wave 6 (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 2.48; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.32, 4.66), as were friends' cigarette smoking (AOR = 4.20; 95% CI = 2.22, 7.96) and lifetime use of other tobacco products (AOR = 1.63; 95% CI = 1.22, 2.17).
conclusionsTrying e-cigarettes during college did not deter cigarette smoking and may have contributed to continued smoking.
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