Association of Electronic Cigarette Use With Smoking Habits, Demographic Factors, and Respiratory Symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There is an ongoing debate about whether electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are the solution to the tobacco epidemic or a new public health threat. Large representative studies are needed to study e-cigarette use in the general population, but hardly any have been published.

Objectives

To estimate the prevalence of e-cigarette use and to investigate the association of e-cigarette use with smoking habits, demographic factors, and respiratory symptoms.

Design, setting, and participants

Cross-sectional, population-based study of random samples of the population, performed within the Obstructive Lung Disease in Northern Sweden (OLIN) study and West Sweden Asthma Study (WSAS). The same validated questionnaire including identical questions was used in OLIN and

SUBMITTER: Hedman L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324524 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature