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Awareness and determinants of electronic cigarette use among Finnish adolescents in 2013: a population-based study
BACKGROUND: A wide range of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are now on the market. We studied e-cigarette awareness and use, determinants and sources of e-cigarettes, the e-liquids used in them and exposure to e-cigarette advertisements among adolescents in Finland. Among smokers, we studied th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4717372/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24827977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-051512 |
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author | Kinnunen, Jaana Maarit Ollila, Hanna El-Amin, Salma El-Tayeb Pere, Lasse Antero Lindfors, Pirjo Liisa Rimpelä, Arja Hannele |
author_facet | Kinnunen, Jaana Maarit Ollila, Hanna El-Amin, Salma El-Tayeb Pere, Lasse Antero Lindfors, Pirjo Liisa Rimpelä, Arja Hannele |
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description | BACKGROUND: A wide range of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are now on the market. We studied e-cigarette awareness and use, determinants and sources of e-cigarettes, the e-liquids used in them and exposure to e-cigarette advertisements among adolescents in Finland. Among smokers, we studied the association of e-cigarette use and interest in smoking cessation. METHOD: Data were obtained from a national survey of 12–18-year-old Finnish adolescents in 2013 (N=3535, response rate 38%). Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis were used. RESULTS: Of the respondents, 85.3% knew what e-cigarettes were; 17.4% had tried them. E-liquids with nicotine were used most often (65.7%); also those who had never tried conventional cigarettes had used them. Of e-cigarette ever users, 8.3% had never tried smoking. Parents’ high level of education, being in employment, and intact family protected against children's e-cigarette use. In the final model, daily smoking (OR 41.35; 95% CI 25.2 to 67.8), snus use (2.96; 2.4–4.0), waterpipe use (2.21; 1.6–3.0), children's vocational education (2.06; 1.4–3.1) and poor school performance (1.92; 1.4–3.0) were associated with e-cigarette experimentation. Those smokers with most experience of e-cigarettes were least likely to consider smoking cessation. CONCLUSIONS: Awareness and experimentation with e-cigarettes are high among adolescents, especially in older age groups and boys. Nicotine e-liquids are easy to acquire for youth. Having similar risk factors, e-cigarette use seems to follow the model of conventional smoking initiation. Among adolescent smokers, use of e-cigarettes does not clearly relate to interest in smoking cessation. Preventive policies are needed to protect the youth. |
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spelling | pubmed-47173722016-01-28 Awareness and determinants of electronic cigarette use among Finnish adolescents in 2013: a population-based study Kinnunen, Jaana Maarit Ollila, Hanna El-Amin, Salma El-Tayeb Pere, Lasse Antero Lindfors, Pirjo Liisa Rimpelä, Arja Hannele Tob Control Research Paper BACKGROUND: A wide range of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are now on the market. We studied e-cigarette awareness and use, determinants and sources of e-cigarettes, the e-liquids used in them and exposure to e-cigarette advertisements among adolescents in Finland. Among smokers, we studied the association of e-cigarette use and interest in smoking cessation. METHOD: Data were obtained from a national survey of 12–18-year-old Finnish adolescents in 2013 (N=3535, response rate 38%). Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis were used. RESULTS: Of the respondents, 85.3% knew what e-cigarettes were; 17.4% had tried them. E-liquids with nicotine were used most often (65.7%); also those who had never tried conventional cigarettes had used them. Of e-cigarette ever users, 8.3% had never tried smoking. Parents’ high level of education, being in employment, and intact family protected against children's e-cigarette use. In the final model, daily smoking (OR 41.35; 95% CI 25.2 to 67.8), snus use (2.96; 2.4–4.0), waterpipe use (2.21; 1.6–3.0), children's vocational education (2.06; 1.4–3.1) and poor school performance (1.92; 1.4–3.0) were associated with e-cigarette experimentation. Those smokers with most experience of e-cigarettes were least likely to consider smoking cessation. CONCLUSIONS: Awareness and experimentation with e-cigarettes are high among adolescents, especially in older age groups and boys. Nicotine e-liquids are easy to acquire for youth. Having similar risk factors, e-cigarette use seems to follow the model of conventional smoking initiation. Among adolescent smokers, use of e-cigarettes does not clearly relate to interest in smoking cessation. Preventive policies are needed to protect the youth. BMJ Publishing Group 2015-12 2014-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4717372/ /pubmed/24827977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-051512 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ |
spellingShingle | Research Paper Kinnunen, Jaana Maarit Ollila, Hanna El-Amin, Salma El-Tayeb Pere, Lasse Antero Lindfors, Pirjo Liisa Rimpelä, Arja Hannele Awareness and determinants of electronic cigarette use among Finnish adolescents in 2013: a population-based study |
title | Awareness and determinants of electronic cigarette use among Finnish adolescents in 2013: a population-based study |
title_full | Awareness and determinants of electronic cigarette use among Finnish adolescents in 2013: a population-based study |
title_fullStr | Awareness and determinants of electronic cigarette use among Finnish adolescents in 2013: a population-based study |
title_full_unstemmed | Awareness and determinants of electronic cigarette use among Finnish adolescents in 2013: a population-based study |
title_short | Awareness and determinants of electronic cigarette use among Finnish adolescents in 2013: a population-based study |
title_sort | awareness and determinants of electronic cigarette use among finnish adolescents in 2013: a population-based study |
topic | Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4717372/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24827977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-051512 |
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