ArticleSubstance use & misuse2024
Youth and Young Adult Blunt Use Predicts Progression to Other Nicotine Product Use in the United States.
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- The role of social media influencer promotion in initiation and use of cigar, little cigar, cigarillo, and cannabis products among US youth and young adults: Using exogenous marketing exposure measures.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026Article
- Psychological Distress is Associated With Blunt Use Among Youth in the United States: Insights From the 2021-2023 National Youth Tobacco Surveys.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Article
- Blunt Talk on "Blunts": The Increasingly Popular Tobacco Product That Is Potentially Exacerbating Tobacco-Related Health Disparities.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Review
- Blunt smoking during emerging adulthood: Characterizing transitions in cannabis and cigar co-use among a diverse cohort in Texas.Addictive behaviors · 2024Article
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backgroundLittle cigars or cigarillos (LCCs) are frequently modified to smoke cannabis ("blunts") by youth and young adults. This study investigated whether young blunt users who are otherwise nicotine-naïve are more likely to initiate other tobacco products compared to never blunt users. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Data were from four waves of the Truth Longitudinal Cohort (TLC), a national probability-based sample of youth and young adults (aged 15-24 years) in the United States (Wave 1: January-April 2017; Wave 2: February-May 2018; Wave 3: February-May 2019; Wave 4: September-December 2019). The sample was restricted to nicotine naïve respondents at Wave 1 with possible ever use of blunts (
resultsCompared to never-blunt users, ever users of blunts at Wave 1 had significantly higher odds of ever using cigars (OR: 4.74; 95% CI: 1.80-12.47; DISCUSSION: Blunts are a point of nicotine initiation that places users at increased risk of progression to cigars, while the same relationship was not found for cannabis alone.
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