Socio-economic distribution of e-cigarette use among recent former regular smokers and current smokers at ages 25-26 in England.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

E-cigarettes may potentially help young adult smokers to quit smoking, yet little is known about differences among socio-economic groups. We examined associations between key socio-economic characteristics and e-cigarette use among recent former smokers and current smokers in a sample of young adults in England.

Design, setting, participants and measurements

We used data on 346 recent former regular (daily for 12+ months) smokers and 1913 current smokers from the ages 25-26 wave of the Next Steps cohort study (2015-2016). In multinomial logistic regression, we estimated relative risk ratios (RRR) of e-cigarette use (never, former, non-daily, daily) by educational attainment, social class [using the National Statistics Socio-economic classification (NS-SEC

SUBMITTER: Gagne T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8246545 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature