Self-reported reasons for vaping among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders in the US: Nationally-representative results
Self-reported reasons for vaping among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders in the US: Nationally-representative results
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DOI:
10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.05.017
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发表时间:
2016-08-01
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Schulenberg, John E.
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作者:
Patrick, Megan E.;Miech, Richard A.;Schulenberg, John E.
Objective: The study describes the most common reasons for using vaporizers (such as e-cigarettes) among US adolescents and investigates how reasons for use differ by grade, lifetime cigarette use, frequency of vaporizer use, gender, race/ethnicity, and parent education.Method: Data were collected from 4066 students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades in 2015 as part of the Monitoring the Future study, a cross-sectional and nationally representative US survey.Results: Common reasons for vaporizer use reported by respondents who had ever used a vaporizer were experimentation (53.0%), taste (37.2%), boredom (23.5%), having a good time (22.4%), and relaxation (21.6%). Reasons differed little across grades or parent education; reasons differed by lifetime use of regular cigarettes, frequency of vaping, gender, and race/ethnicity.Conclusions: Overall, results suggest that decisions to vape are based on curiosity, taste, and pleasure, rather than for reasons such as quitting regular cigarettes or substituting for regular cigarette smoking. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.