E-Cigarette Use Among Never-Smoking California Students.

• Autores: Georgiana Bostean, Dennis R Trinidad, William J. McCarthy
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 105, Nº. 12, 2015, págs. 2423-2425
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We determined the extent to which adolescents who have never used tobacco try e-cigarettes. Data on the prevalence and correlates of e-cigarette use among 482179 California middle and high school students are from the 2013-2014 California Healthy Kids Survey. Overall, 24.4% had ever use de-cigarettes (13.4% have never used tobacco and 11.0% have used tobacco), and 12.9% were current e-cigarette users (5.9% have never used tobacco). Among those who have never used tobacco, males and older students were more likely to use e-cigarettes than females and younger students. Hispanics (odds ratio [OR] = 1.60; confidence interval [CI] = 1.53, 1.67) and those of other races (OR= 1.24; CI = 1.19, 1.29) were more likely than Whites to have ever used e-cigarettes, but only among those who had never used smokeless tobacco and never smoked a whole cigarette. E-cigarette use is very prevalent among California students who have never smoked tobacco, especially among Hispanic and other race students, males, and older students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]