Tattan-Birch, Harry;
Jackson, Sarah E;
Kock, Loren;
Dockrell, Martin;
Brown, Jamie;
(2022)
Rapid growth in disposable e-cigarette vaping among young adults in Great Britain from 2021 to 2022: a repeat cross-sectional survey.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL): Cold Spring Harbor (NY), USA.
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Abstract
AIMS: To estimate recent trends in the prevalence of disposable e-cigarette vaping in Great Britain, overall and across ages. DESIGN: The Smoking Toolkit Study, a monthly representative cross-sectional survey. Setting: Great Britain. PARTICIPANTS: 29,976 adults (≥18 years) completed telephone interviews from January 2021 to January 2022. MEASUREMENTS: Current e-cigarette vapers were asked which type of device they mainly use. We estimated age-specific time trends in the prevalence of current disposable e-cigarette use among vapers and inhaled nicotine use (vaping/smoking) among adults. FINDINGS: From January 2021 to January 2022, there was a 14-fold increase in the percentage of vapers that used disposables, rising from 1.2% to 16.7% (prevalence ratio [PR], 14.4; 95%CI, 6.6-49.0). Growth in disposable e-cigarette vaping was most pronounced in younger adults (interaction p-value, .0.007): for example, the percentage of 18-year-old vapers using of disposables rose from 0.89% to 56.7% (PR, 64; 95%CI, 15-5790) while it rose from 1.3% to 6.2% (PR, 4.7; 95%CI, 1.7-144) among 45-year-old vapers. However, the overall percentage people currently using any inhaled nicotine, vaped or smoked, remained stable over time both among all adults (20.1% vs. 20.6%; PR, 1.03; 95%CI, 0.88-1.20) and among 18-year-olds (29.6% vs. 29.6%; PR, 1.00; 95%CI, 0.79-1.26). CONCLUSIONS: Use of disposable e-cigarettes in Great Britain grew rapidly between 2021 and 2022, especially among younger adults, but the overall prevalence of inhaled nicotine use — smoked or vaped — was stable over time. Most young adult vapers in Great Britain now use disposable products.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Rapid growth in disposable e-cigarette vaping among young adults in Great Britain from 2021 to 2022: a repeat cross-sectional survey |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1101/2022.05.06.22274762 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.06.22274762 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY 4.0 International license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL 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 UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149564 |
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