Associations of Flavored e-Cigarette Uptake With Subsequent Smoking Initiation and Cessation.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Several states have banned sales of flavored e-cigarettes, but evidence on the association between vaping flavors and subsequent smoking initiation and cessation is limited.

Objective

To evaluate whether new uptake of flavored e-cigarettes is more strongly associated with subsequent smoking initiation and cessation than uptake of unflavored e-cigarettes, separately for youths (12-17 years), emerging adults (18-24 years), and prime-age adults (25-54 years).

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study conducted secondary data analyses of longitudinal survey data from waves 1 to 4 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study (collected from 2013 to 2018). The analytic sample was limited to 17 929 respondents aged 12 to 54 years at wave 1 wh

SUBMITTER: Friedman AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7275248 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature