Observational studyEuropean journal of public health2022
Electronic cigarette use among adolescents in 17 European study sites: findings from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey.
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- Do Vaping Prevention Messages Impact Adolescents and Young Adults? A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies.Health communication · 2023Pooled it
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- Lifestyle Habits and Alternative Tobacco and Nicotine Products: Results from the MINERVA Project.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Restructuring areas, reshaping norms: Denormalizing (e-)cigarette use in Swiss vocational and high schools.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2026Article
- The New 'Cool'? A Qualitative Study of E-Cigarette Perceptions and Experience Among Irish Adolescents.Tobacco use insights · 2026Article
- A decade of e-cigarettes: trends and determinants among U.S. middle and high school students (2013-2022).BMC public health · 2025Article
- Nicotine consumption in Poland: from traditional cigarettes to modern products - a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Keep e-cigarette vaping away from juveniles: immediate interventions.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025Article
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- Temporal changes and correlates of tobacco and E-cigarettes use among school-going students in Albania: insights from global youth tobacco surveys (2015-2020).European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Awareness, perceptions, and use of e-cigarettes among medical university students in Tbilisi, Georgia.Journal of substance use · 2025Article
- Prevalence and associated factors of alcohol consumption in Albanian schoolchildren.BMC public health · 2025Article
- A systematic review on risk factors and reasons for e-cigarette use in adolescents.Tobacco induced diseases · 2025Review
- Characteristics of nicotine product use, perceptions of dependence, and passive exposure among first-year university students in Brazil.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2025Article
- Prevalence, perceptions, and beliefs of university students about electronic cigarettes.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundAs new findings on public health implications of electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use emerge, its surveillance remains of utmost importance. This study examined the latest state of e-cigarette use in youth in 17 European study sites (i.e. 16 countries and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina) using the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS).
methodsThis was an observational study. Cross-sectional data on students aged 11-17 years from the latest available GYTS round completed in 17 study sites were used to estimate crude and adjusted prevalence of e-cigarette use by sex and pocket money. Panel GYTS data from five countries were used for the trend analyses. All analyses were weighted to account for the survey design and non-response.
resultsCompared to 2014, the age-adjusted prevalence of e-cigarette use more than doubled in Georgia and Italy, and nearly doubled in Latvia. Significantly more male than female students aged 11-17 years reported use of e-cigarettes, with little to no confounding by age, grade and pocket money across countries. Youth with medium or higher amount of pocket money was 20-200% more likely to use e-cigarettes than those with fewer to no pocket money in 14 study sites. DISCUSSION: As e-cigarette use is becoming widespread throughout the world, there is variation in use among and between countries. Expanded and consistent surveillance of e-cigarette use by all World Health Organization member states is essential to generate data on the extent and correlates of youth e-cigarette use for evidence-based planning and evaluation of the electronic nicotine delivery systems and electronic non-nicotine delivery systems national and global control programmes.
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