Patterns of cigarette and e-cigarette use among UK adolescents: a latent class analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patterning of cigarette and e-cigarette use among young people remains poorly characterized. We aimed to describe these patterns in the UK Millennium Cohort Study at age 14 and 17 years.

Methods

Data on cigarette and e-cigarette use come from 9731 adolescents. Latent class analysis assigned participants to membership of classes of product use and multinomial logistic regression analyses assessed differences in the likelihood of belonging to classes by sociodemographic (age, gender, ethnicity, household income, maternal education and country of residence) and smoking-related social factors (caregiver tobacco use, caregiver e-cigarette use and peer smoking).

Results

We identified four classes of use: 45.8% of adolescents 'continued to abstain' from cigarettes

SUBMITTER: Vrinten C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10567249 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature