Associations Between Early Onset of E-cigarette Use and Cigarette Smoking and Other Substance Use Among US Adolescents: A National Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This study examines the associations between early onset of e-cigarette use and cigarette smoking and other substance use behaviors among US adolescents.

Methods

Data were collected via self-administered questionnaires from a nationally representative sample of 2299 US high school seniors attending public and private high schools during the spring of their senior year in 2015 as part of the Monitoring the Future study.

Results

A higher percentage of adolescents who began using e-cigarettes in ninth grade or earlier (early onset) were found to report current and lifetime cigarette smoking and other substance use relative to those individuals who never used e-cigarettes or those who began using e-cigarettes later in the 12th grade. Multivariate logistic reg

SUBMITTER: McCabe SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6037083 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature