Jarvis, M;
Jackson, S;
West, R;
Brown, J;
(2020)
Epidemic of youth nicotine addiction? What does the National Youth Tobacco Survey 2017-2019 reveal about high school e-cigarette use in the USA?
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Background: Between 2018 and 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration announced various restrictions on e-cigarette manufacturers in response to a perceived epidemic of e-cigarette use and nicotine dependence among high school students. The stimulus came from headline figures from the 2018 and 2019 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS). We analysed e-cigarette use and dependence in the NYTS in relation to lifetime history of use of tobacco products. Design and setting: Nationally representative annual survey of high school students 2017 to 2019. Participants: 10,186 students in 2017, 10,991 in 2018 and 10,097 in 2019. Measurements: Any use of e-cigarettes in past 30 days, frequent e-cigarette use (≥20 of past 30 days) and indicators of tobacco or nicotine dependence (strong craving in past 30 days; wanting to use within 30 minutes of waking) were analysed in relation to lifetime tobacco product use history, ranging from never use through to lifetime smoking of >100 cigarettes. Findings: Past-30-day e-cigarette use increased from 11.7% in 2017 to 20.8% in 2018, and 27.5% in 2019. In 2019 it was reported in 13.3% of those who had never tried any other tobacco product, 30.9% of those who had tried only a non-combustible product (OR 2.9, CI 1.9-4.5), and in 73.8 % of those who had smoked more than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime (OR 18.3, CI 8.4-40.1) Frequent use occurred in 1.0% of otherwise tobacco naive users in 2018 and 2.1% in 2019. Among otherwise tobacco naive past-30-day e-cigarette users in 2019, 8.7% reported craving and 2.9% reported wanting to use within 30 minutes of waking. Conclusions: While use of e-cigarettes in US high-school students increased sharply between 2017 and 2019, frequent use and signs of e-cigarette dependence remained rare in students who had only ever used e-cigarettes and never any other tobacco product.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Epidemic of youth nicotine addiction? What does the National Youth Tobacco Survey 2017-2019 reveal about high school e-cigarette use in the USA? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.32388/745076.5 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.32388/745076.5 |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | E-cigarettes; vaping; nicotine; addiction; dependence; cigarettes; smoking. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Behavioural Science and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10109770 |
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