The great decline in adolescent cigarette smoking since 2000: consequences for drug use among US adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Adolescent cigarette smoking declined steadily and substantially from 2000 to 2018. This paper considers the potential consequences of this 'great decline' for the prevalence of other drug use among adolescents.

Methods

Data are annual, cross-sectional, nationally representative Monitoring the Future surveys of more than 1.2 million US students in 12th, 10th and 8th grades from 2000 to 2018. Analyses include trends in the past 12 months' non-medical amphetamine, tranquillisers and opioid use overall, among ever and never cigarette smokers, and projected if adolescent cigarette smoking levels had remained at 2000 levels.

Results

Within groups of ever and never cigarette smokers, the prevalence for each of the three substances has either changed little or over

SUBMITTER: Miech R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7363524 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature