Trends in Nicotine Product Use Among US Adolescents, 1999-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

With increasing e-cigarette use among US adolescents and decreasing use of other tobacco products, it is unclear how total use of nicotine products, and its long-term health risks, have changed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's standard measure-any tobacco product use in the past 30 days-considers neither frequency of use nor product risk implications.

Objective

To investigate how nicotine product use, including frequency of use, and its associated risks have changed among middle school and high school students since 1999.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used data from the 1999-2020 National Youth Tobacco Survey, an in-school survey of a nationally representative sample of students in grades 6 through 12; each su

SUBMITTER: Sun R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8387850 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature