ArticleTobacco control2025
Declines in cigarette smoking among US adolescents and young adults: indications of independence from e-cigarette vaping surge.
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- Heterogeneity in Nicotine, Tobacco, and Cannabis Use Among U.S. Adolescents and Adults Aged 12-34 Years.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Cigarette smoking decline among US young adults from 2000 to 2019, in relation to state-level cigarette price and tobacco control expenditure.Tobacco control · 2025Article
- Associations between tobacco 21 and state flavour restrictions with young adult tobacco use.Tobacco control · 2025Article
- Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS): Implications for the Clinician.Pulmonary therapy · 2025Review
- Addressing Tobacco-Related Disparities Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness by Engaging Youth Collaborators in Intervention Research: Protocol for a Multimethod, Community-Based Participatory Research Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Tobacco policy coverage in California jurisdictions before and after enactment of proposition 56.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- Tobacco Susceptibility and Use Among Rural Adolescents: The Role of Tobacco Marketing Exposure and Screen Media Use.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo compare trends in cigarette smoking and nicotine vaping among US population aged 17-18 years and 18-24 years.
methodsRegression analyses identified trends in ever and current use of cigarettes and e-cigarettes, using three US representative surveys from 1992 to 2022.
resultsFrom 1997 to 2020, cigarette smoking prevalence among those aged 18-24 years decreased from 29.1% (95% CI 27.4% to 30.7%) to 5.4% (95% CI 3.9% to 6.9%). The decline was highly correlated with a decline in past 30-day smoking among those aged 17-18 years (1997: 36.8% (95% CI 35.6% to 37.9%; 2022: 3.0% (95% CI 1.8% to 4.1%). From 2017 to 2019, both ever-vaping and past 30-day nicotine vaping (11.0% to 25.5%) surged among those 17-18 years, however there was no increase among those aged 18-24 years. Regression models demonstrated that the surge in vaping was independent of the decline in cigarette smoking. In the 24 most populous US states, exclusive vaping did increase among those aged 18-24 years, from 1.7% to 4.0% to equivalent to 40% of the decline in cigarette smoking between 2014-15 and 2018-19. Across these US states, the correlation between the changes in vaping and smoking prevalence was low (r=0.11). In the two US states with >US$1/fluid mL tax on e-cigarettes in 2017, cigarette smoking declined faster than the US average.
conclusionsSince 1997, a large decline in cigarette smoking occurred in the US population under age 24 years, that was independent of the 2017-19 adolescent surge in past 30-day e-cigarette vaping. Further research is needed to assess whether the 2014-15 to 2018-19 increase in exclusive vaping in those aged 18-24 years is a cohort effect from earlier dependence on e-cigarette vaping as adolescents.
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