Performance of cigarette susceptibility index among e-cigarette and hookah users.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Susceptibility to cigarette smoking has been used since the mid-1990s as a measure to identify youth at risk of cigarette initiation. However, it is unclear how well this measure predicts future smoking among electronic (e-)cigarette or hookah users, or among those in tobacco-friendly social environments.

Methods

We used prospective data from the Southern California Children's Health Study to evaluate the performance (sensitivity, specificity, predictive value) of a composite index assessing susceptibility to smoking, and to evaluate whether performance of the measure differed by use of e-cigarettes or hookah, or immersion in a tobacco-friendly social environment. Susceptibility to cigarette smoking was measured in 11th/12th grade (2014) among never cigarette-smoke

SUBMITTER: Barrington-Trimis JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5803381 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature