New Zealand Youth19 survey: vaping has wider appeal than smoking in secondary school students, and most use nicotine-containing e-cigarettes.

Autor: Ball J; Department of Public Health, University of Otago, New Zealand., Fleming T; School of Health, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand., Drayton B; Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand., Sutcliffe K; School of Health, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand., Lewycka S; Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam., Clark TC; School of Nursing, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Australian and New Zealand journal of public health [Aust N Z J Public Health] 2021 Dec; Vol. 45 (6), pp. 546-553. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Oct 14.
DOI: 10.1111/1753-6405.13169
Abstrakt: Objective: To investigate smoking and vaping in secondary school students (aged 13-18 years) in New Zealand (NZ) following the introduction of 'pod' e-cigarettes, which have been associated with the rapid escalation of youth vaping elsewhere.
Methods: Data on smoking and vaping were collected in 2019 as part of a comprehensive youth health survey (N=7,721).
Results: Vaping was 2-3 times more prevalent than smoking, with 10% of students vaping regularly (monthly or more often), and 6% weekly or more often, compared with 4% and 2%, respectively, for tobacco smoking. Nicotine-containing e-cigarettes were sometimes or always used by 80% of regular and 90% of weekly vapers. Regular and weekly smoking was rare in low deprivation (affluent) areas, whereas regular and weekly vaping prevalence was similar across the socioeconomic spectrum. More than 80% of ever-vapers (N=2732) reported they were non-smokers when they first vaped, and 49% of regular vapers (N=718) had never smoked.
Conclusions: A significant proportion of New Zealand adolescents, many of whom have never smoked, use nicotine-containing e-cigarettes regularly. Implications for public health: Vaping is less harmful than smoking, but it is not harmless. Public health action is needed to support young non-smokers to remain smokefree and vape-free.
(© 2021 The Authors.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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