Gagné, T;
Brown, J;
(2021)
Socio‐economic distribution of e‐cigarette use among recent former regular smokers and current smokers at ages 25–26 in England.
Addiction
10.1111/add.15345.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: E-cigarettes may potentially help young adult smokers quit smoking, yet little is known about differences across socioeconomic groups. We examined associations between key socioeconomic 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 1,913 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)), and employment status (full-time, part-time, unemployed and other 'inactivity' (e.g., stay at home parents and permanantly disabled)), adjusting for sex. FINDINGS: Among recent former regular smokers, there were no patterns of association between socioeconomic characteristics and e-cigarette use. Among current smokers: 1) compared with higher occupation (NS-SEC I/II), intermediate occupation (NS-SEC III/IV) was positively associated with non-daily e-cigarette use (RRR = 1.77, 95%CI 1.03-3.03); 2) compared with full-time employment, unemployment was negatively associated with non-daily and daily e-cigarette use (RRR = 0.38, 95%CI 0.18-0.81; RRR = 0.12, 95%CI 0.02-0.56), and other economic inactivity was negatively associated with daily e-cigarette use (RRR = 0.39, 95%CI 0.16-0.93). CONCLUSIONS: Among young adult smokers in England, lower status occupational groups were more likely to use e-cigarettes on a non-daily basis than to have never used compared with higher status occupational groups. Compared with people in full-time employment, those without employment were less likely to use e-cigarettes daily than to have never used.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Socio‐economic distribution of e‐cigarette use among recent former regular smokers and current smokers at ages 25–26 in England |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/add.15345 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15345 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Addiction published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society for the Study of Addiction. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | E‐cigarettes, England, Next Steps study, Smoking, Socioeconomic Factors, young adults |
| 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/10115873 |
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