Age at Initiation of Cigarette Use in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Youth, 2013-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Cigarettes are still a commonly used tobacco product among youth despite recent declines in cigarette use.

Objective

The aim of this study was to prospectively estimate the age of cigarette use initiation among youth (aged 12-17 years) overall, by sex, and by race/ethnicity.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used data from waves 1 through 4 of the nationally representative Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study, conducted from September 12, 2013, to January 3, 2018. Two subpopulations of youth were assessed: (1) those nonsusceptible to cigarette use and (2) never users of cigarettes at their first wave of PATH participation. Weighted interval-censoring survival analyses were used to prospectively estimate the age of initi

SUBMITTER: Perez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7910812 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature