Risk of adolescent cigarette use in three UK birth cohorts before and after e-cigarettes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Longitudinal data from three UK birth cohorts (born in 1958, 1970 and 2001) were used to (1) document the historic decline in adolescent cigarette smoking; (2) examine how e-cigarette use is associated with adolescent cigarette smoking in the most recent cohort; and (3) compare probabilities of cigarette smoking across the cohorts.

Methods

The prevalence of adolescent cigarette smoking was assessed in 1974 from 11 969 youth in the National Child Development Study (NCDS), in 1986 from 6222 youth in the British Cohort Study (BCS), and in 2018 from 9733 youth in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). Logistic regression models were used to estimate the odds of adolescent smoking (ages 16-17) based on a common set of childhood risk and protective factors; adolescent e-ciga

SUBMITTER: Mongilio JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12313170 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature