COVID-19 Restrictions and Adolescent Cigarette and E-cigarette Use in California.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Shelter-in-place orders altered facilitators and barriers to tobacco use (e.g., outlet closures, restricted social gatherings). This study examined whether the duration of time in shelter in place and compliance with different shelter-in-place orders influenced adolescent cigarette and E-cigarette use and how the use may differ by demographic characteristics.

Methods

Shelter-in-place policy data obtained from government websites were merged with cross-sectional 2020 survey data on adolescents in California. Treatment variables included the proportion of time in shelter in place and self-reported compliance with shelter-in-place orders (for essential businesses and retail spaces and social and outdoor contexts). Multilevel logit models for dichotomous past 6-mont

SUBMITTER: Wharton MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9636984 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature