ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2019
E-cigarette Use Among Young Adults in the U.S.
Article in American journal of preventive medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between e-cigarette use and cigarette abstinence or changes in continued cigarette smoking among individuals who smoke cigarettes.Harm reduction journal · 2026Pooled it
- A randomized controlled trial examining the effects of human models in e-cigarette advertisements and e-cigarette use among susceptible young adults.Addictive behaviors · 2026Trial
- Does source matter? Examining the effects of health experts, friends, and social media influencers on young adult perceptions of Instagram e-cigarette education messages.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Trial
- Young Adults' Responses to E-Cigarette Advertisements: An Examination for Potential Regulation.American journal of preventive medicine · 2026Article
- Young people's perspectives on integrating physical activity interventions into youth substance use treatment practice: a mixed-methods study.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
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- Young adult peer crowds, e-cigarette advertising exposure, and e-cigarette use: Test of a mediation model.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Article
- Characteristics Associated with Young Adults' Intentions to Engage with Anti-Vaping Instagram Posts.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Misconceptions of Vaping Among Young Adults.Cureus · 2023Article
- E-Cigarette Use Among persons With Diagnosed HIV in the U.S.AJPM focus · 2023Article
- Influence of User Profile Attributes on e-Cigarette-Related Searches on YouTube: Machine Learning Clustering and Classification.JMIR infodemiology · 2023Article
- E-Cigarette Use among Male Smokers in Al-Ahsa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Socio-temporal contextual and community factors associated with daily exclusive ENDS use and dual use with tobacco cigarettes among adolescent vapers: an ecological momentary assessment study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Factors Associated with the Dual Use of Electronic Cigarettes and Cigarettes among Thai Undergraduate Students Who Smoked Cigarettes.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Socio-economic distribution of e-cigarette use among recent former regular smokers and current smokers at ages 25-26 in England.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Article
- Relations among sweet taste preference, body mass index, and use of E-cigarettes for weight control motives in young adults.Eating behaviors · 2021Article
- Same-day use of cigarettes, alcohol, and cannabis among sexual minority and heterosexual young adult smokers.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 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
- Hispanics/Latinos' Cigarette and E-cigarette Use: Behavioral and Self-rated Health.American journal of health behavior · 2021Article
- Gas Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Method for the Selective Detection of Glycols and Glycerol in the Liquids and Aerosols of E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Products.Frontiers in chemistry · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionUse of e-cigarettes is increasing among young adults in the U.S. Whether e-cigarette use serves as an aid to smoking reduction or cessation among young adults remains a matter of contention. This analysis examines patterns of e-cigarette use in relation to cigarette smoking in a nationally representative sample of U.S. young adults.
methodsData were analyzed from nationally representative U.S. adults, aged 18 to 35years (N=12,415), in the 2012-2013 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III. Logistic regression assessed associations between e-cigarette use and smoking intensity, continuity, and reduction while controlling for several potential confounding factors. Data were analyzed in 2018.
resultsAmong cigarette smokers, e-cigarette use was associated with higher odds of tobacco use disorder (AOR=2.58, 95% CI=1.73, 3.83) and daily cigarette smoking (AOR=1.67, 95% CI=1.73, 3.83). Among adults aged 26-35years, e-cigarette use was also associated with heavy cigarette smoking (AOR=2.01, 95% CI=1.09, 3.74). Among lifetime smokers, e-cigarette use was associated with lower odds of stopping smoking (AOR=0.14, 95% CI=0.08, 0.23) and lower odds of a 50% reduction in cigarettes smoked per day (AOR=0.63, 95% CI=0.43, 0.93). Only 13.1% of young adults who ever used e-cigarettes reported using them to help stop or quit smoking.
conclusionsUse of e-cigarettes by U.S. young adults, most of which is not intended to help reduce smoking, is related to more rather than less frequent and intensive cigarette smoking.
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