E-cigarette use and combustible tobacco cigarette smoking uptake among non-smokers, including relapse in former smokers: umbrella review, systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To review and summarise the current evidence on the uptake of combustible cigarette smoking following e-cigarette use in non-smokers-including never-smokers, people not currently smoking and past smokers-through an umbrella review, systematic review and meta-analysis.

Design

Umbrella review, systematic review and meta-analysis.

Data sources

PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, PsychINFO (Ovid), Medline (Ovid) and Wiley Cochrane Library up to April 2020.

Results

Of 6225 results, 25 studies of non-smokers-never, not current and former smokers-with a baseline measure of e-cigarette use and an outcome measure of combustible smoking uptake were included. All 25 studies found increased risk of smoking uptake with e-cigarette exposure, although magnitude varied s

SUBMITTER: Baenziger ON 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8011717 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature