Abstract
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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 275-278 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Drug and alcohol dependence |
Volume | 165 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 1 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This study was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse ( R01 DA 001411 ). The content here is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the sponsors.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Keywords
- Adolescents
- Electronic cigarettes
- Reasons
- Vaporizers
- e-Cigarettes