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First tobacco product tried: associations with smoking status and demographics among college students.
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- Developing Pictorial Cigarillo Warnings: Insights From Focus Groups.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021Article
- Initial use of tobacco or marijuana and later use profiles in young adults.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2020Article
- School Smoking Policies and Health Science Students' Use of Cigarettes, Shisha, and Dipping Tombak in Sudan.Frontiers in public health · 2019Article
- Adolescents' first tobacco products: Associations with current multiple tobacco product use.PloS one · 2019Article
- Longitudinal predictors of cigarette use among students from 24 Texas colleges.Journal of American college health : J of ACH · 2018Article
- E-cigarette advertising exposure in e-cigarette naïve adolescents and subsequent e-cigarette use: A longitudinal cohort study.Addictive behaviors · 2018Article
- Adolescents' First Tobacco Product: Results from a Nationally Representative Survey.Tobacco regulatory science · 2018Article
- Attitudes and Risk Perceptions Toward Smoking Among Adolescents Who Modify Cigar Products.Ethnicity & disease · 2018Article
- An Experiment Assessing Punitive versus Wellness Framing of a Tobacco-Free Campus Policy on Students' Perceived Level of University Support.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- Association of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS) exposure and cigarette use among Nigerian adolescents: implications for current practices, products and policies.BMJ global health · 2017Article
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Abstract
introductionAs the tobacco market expands, so too have the opportunities for youth to be introduced to nicotine. The goal of this study was to identify product choice for initial tobacco trial, correlates associated with product choice, and the relationship between first product and current cigarette smoking among college students.
methodsA cross-sectional web survey of 3146 first-year students at 11 universities in North Carolina and Virginia was conducted in fall 2010.
resultsWeighted prevalence of ever use of tobacco was 48.6%. Cigarettes were the most common first product (37.9%), followed by cigars (29.3%), hookahs (24.6%), smokeless tobacco (6.1%), and bidis/kreteks (2.2%). Two thirds (65%) of current smokers initiated with cigarettes, but 16.4% started with cigars, 11.1% with hookahs, 5.7% with smokeless, and 1.7% with bidis/kreteks. Females were more likely to report their first product was cigarettes and hookahs, while males were more likely to start with cigars and smokeless tobacco. Compared to those whose first product trial occurred after the age of 18, younger age of initiation (17years or younger) was associated with cigarettes and smokeless as first products, while older age of initiation (18 or older) was associated with starting with hookahs and cigars. Dual or poly tobacco use was more common among those who initiated with hookahs and smokeless tobacco.
conclusionsWhile over a third of students used cigarettes first, two thirds started with a non-cigarette product. Just about a third of current cigarette smokers initiated with a non-cigarette product, suggesting that those non-cigarette products may have facilitated escalation to cigarettes.
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