Adolescent Cannabis Users Who Have Never Smoked A Combustible Cigarette: Trends and Level of Addictive Drug Use from 1976 to 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescents cannabis users are at a substantially elevated risk for use of highly addictive drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and nonmedical use of prescription drugs. Unknown is whether this elevated risk applies to adolescent cannabis users who have never smoked a combustible cigarette, a group that has grown considerably in size in recent years. This study documents the recent growth in the proportion of adolescent cannabis users who abstain from combustible cigarette use, and examines their probability for use of addictive drugs.

Methods

Data are annual, cross-sectional, nationally-representative Monitoring the Future surveys of 607,932 U.S. 12^th grade students from 1976-2020.

Results

Among ever cannabis users, the percentage who had never smoke

SUBMITTER: Miech RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10457040 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature