ArticleBMC public health2021
Youth susceptibility to tobacco use: is it general or specific?
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- Exposure to tobacco advertisements or promotions and smoking susceptibility among adolescents in China from 2013-14 to 2021: findings from the China National Youth Tobacco Survey.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Are educational aspirations associated with susceptibility to smoking, e-cigarette use, and smokeless tobacco use in adolescence?European journal of public health · 2024Article
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- Noncigarette Tobacco Product Use Among Smoking-Susceptible and Nonsusceptible Adolescent Never Smokers, 2009-2021.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Article
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- Tobacco Susceptibility Explains Diminished Returns of Family Income on Black Adolescents' Tobacco Initiation.Open journal of psychology · 2024Article
- Susceptibility to e-cigarette use and associated factors in high school youth, Oklahoma Youth Tobacco Survey, 2021-2022.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Motivations for continued tobacco smoking and reasons for quitting among youths in Wakiso district, Uganda: a qualitative study.BMC primary care · 2023Article
- Longitudinal relationship between social media and e-cigarette use among adolescents: the roles of internalizing problems and academic performance.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Mutual pathways between peer and own e-cigarette use among youth in the United States: a cross-lagged model.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Sleep quality, physical activity, screen time, and substance use in children with obesity: associations with obstructive sleep apnea.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2023Article
- Nicotine Pouch: Awareness, Beliefs, Use, and Susceptibility among Current Tobacco Users in the United States, 2021.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- Genetic and environmental influences on early-age susceptibility and initiation of nicotine-containing product use: A twin-pairs study.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2023Article
- Sleep troubles in adolescence relate to future initiation of ENDS USE: A longitudinal cohort design using the PATH study waves 4.5-5 (2017-2019).Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundSusceptibility to tobacco use predicts tobacco use onset among youth. The current study aimed to estimate the extent of overlap in susceptibilities across various tobacco products, investigate sociopsychological correlates with susceptibilities, and examine whether the relationship linking susceptibility with the onset of use is product-specific or is accounted for by a general susceptibility-onset relationship.
methodsThe study population consisted of US youth 12-17 years old who had never used a tobacco product, sampled in the longitudinal Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health study wave 4 (Dec. 2016-Jan. 2018; n = 10,977). Tobacco product-specific susceptibility at wave 4 was assessed via questions about curiosity, likelihood to try, and likelihood of use if a best friend offered. The onset of use of various tobacco products was defined as first use occurring between the wave 4 and wave 4.5 (Dec. 2017-Dec. 2018) assessments (n = 8841). Generalized linear regression and structural equation models were used for data analysis.
resultsThere is a large degree of overlap in susceptibilities across tobacco products (65% of tobacco-susceptible youth were susceptible to more than one tobacco product). Tobacco-susceptible youths were more likely to have recently used cannabis, consumed alcohol, or to have been associated with tobacco-using peers. Structural equation models suggest that the susceptibility-onset relationship largely operates in a non-product-specific manner after accounting for the general susceptibility-to-tobacco-onset relationship.
conclusionsYouth susceptibility to tobacco use overlaps widely across different tobacco products and other risky behaviors. Findings from this study support a holistic approach towards the prevention of risk behaviors, supplemented by product-specific strategies when needed.
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