Role of social-cognitive factors in the relationship between e-cigarette use and subsequent cigarette smoking among U.S. youth: A causal mediation analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

E-cigarette use is associated with subsequent cigarette smoking among youth. The current study examined the mediating role of social-cognitive factors in this association.

Methods

Data from four waves of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health study (2013/4 - 2017/8) were analyzed. Among youth who had heard about e-cigarettes at Wave 1 but never used cigarettes before Wave 2, we conducted both causal and traditional mediation analyses to examine the mediated effect of social-cognitive factors (including relative harm perception of e-cigarettes versus cigarettes, harm perception of e-cigarette use, perceptions of addictiveness of e-cigarette use, and e-cigarette use among best friends) in the association between e-cigarette use and subsequent cigarette ever

SUBMITTER: Xu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11629175 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature