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Assessment of knowledge of use of electronic cigarette and its harmful effects among young adults
BACKGROUND: The practice of young adults smoking e-cigarette may have been adopted as a way of smoking cessation or just to follow a trend. Most people still remain unaware of the detrimental effects of e-cigarette. This study was carried out to assess the prevalence of the habit of smoking e-cigare...
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De Gruyter
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7711978/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33336037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/med-2020-0224 |
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author | Gupta, Vidushi Sharma, Madhu Srikant, Natarajan Manaktala, Nidhi |
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description | BACKGROUND: The practice of young adults smoking e-cigarette may have been adopted as a way of smoking cessation or just to follow a trend. Most people still remain unaware of the detrimental effects of e-cigarette. This study was carried out to assess the prevalence of the habit of smoking e-cigarette and the awareness of its harmful effects among adults aged 18–23 years. METHODS: A questionnaire adopted from a study conducted in Italy was used in the study following due permission. After taking their consent, participants were requested to fill the survey irrespective of their smoking status. RESULTS: In total the study comprised 710 participants aged 20.7 ± 1.7 years (females = 412 and males = 298) from six countries. Most respondents were from India followed by the USA and then the UK. The most common mode of information for the participants on the existence of e-cigarette was from the family members, friends followed by Internet search engines and TV/newspaper advertisements. Among the participants, e-cigarette had a prevalence of 5.63%. Among these, 26 participants were using e-cigarette for less than 1 year and 2 participants for more than 5 years. E-cigarette smokers also experienced sore throat, cough, headache, dizziness and sleeplessness. CONCLUSION: Majority of the young population was unaware about the use and harmful effects of e-cigarette. |
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spelling | pubmed-77119782020-12-16 Assessment of knowledge of use of electronic cigarette and its harmful effects among young adults Gupta, Vidushi Sharma, Madhu Srikant, Natarajan Manaktala, Nidhi Open Med (Wars) Research Article BACKGROUND: The practice of young adults smoking e-cigarette may have been adopted as a way of smoking cessation or just to follow a trend. Most people still remain unaware of the detrimental effects of e-cigarette. This study was carried out to assess the prevalence of the habit of smoking e-cigarette and the awareness of its harmful effects among adults aged 18–23 years. METHODS: A questionnaire adopted from a study conducted in Italy was used in the study following due permission. After taking their consent, participants were requested to fill the survey irrespective of their smoking status. RESULTS: In total the study comprised 710 participants aged 20.7 ± 1.7 years (females = 412 and males = 298) from six countries. Most respondents were from India followed by the USA and then the UK. The most common mode of information for the participants on the existence of e-cigarette was from the family members, friends followed by Internet search engines and TV/newspaper advertisements. Among the participants, e-cigarette had a prevalence of 5.63%. Among these, 26 participants were using e-cigarette for less than 1 year and 2 participants for more than 5 years. E-cigarette smokers also experienced sore throat, cough, headache, dizziness and sleeplessness. CONCLUSION: Majority of the young population was unaware about the use and harmful effects of e-cigarette. De Gruyter 2020-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7711978/ /pubmed/33336037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/med-2020-0224 Text en © 2020 Vidushi Gupta et al., published by De Gruyter http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Gupta, Vidushi Sharma, Madhu Srikant, Natarajan Manaktala, Nidhi Assessment of knowledge of use of electronic cigarette and its harmful effects among young adults |
title | Assessment of knowledge of use of electronic cigarette and its harmful effects among young adults |
title_full | Assessment of knowledge of use of electronic cigarette and its harmful effects among young adults |
title_fullStr | Assessment of knowledge of use of electronic cigarette and its harmful effects among young adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of knowledge of use of electronic cigarette and its harmful effects among young adults |
title_short | Assessment of knowledge of use of electronic cigarette and its harmful effects among young adults |
title_sort | assessment of knowledge of use of electronic cigarette and its harmful effects among young adults |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7711978/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33336037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/med-2020-0224 |
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