Bidirectional associations between e-cigarette use and alcohol use across adolescence

Sleep troubles in adolescence relate to future initiation of ENDS Use: A longitudinal cohort design using the PATH study waves 4.5–5 (2017–2019)

“…PATH study youth participant eligibility included nonincarcerated, noninstitutionalized citizens of the United States aged 12 to 17, living in the United States at the time of the survey. Because prior tobacco, alcohol, and other illicit substance use has been associated with both sleep trouble and ENDS use ( Lozano et al, 2021 , Brake, 2019 ) and any bidirectional associations between these substances and sleep could obscure the direction of the association between sleep troubles and ENDS initiation, we excluded youth who reported prior use of any type of tobacco product, past year alcohol and/or illicit substances at wave 4.5 (n = 5,131) and youth who had missing responses for at least one product or substance (n = 27). The final sample included 6,466 youth respondents, representing a population of 13,295,663 United States youth between the ages of 12 and 17 who had never used any type of tobacco product and no alcohol or illicit substances in the past year at wave 4.5.…”

The Prospective Association Between the Use of E-Cigarettes and Other Psychoactive Substances in Young People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

“…Meta-analytic calculations were conducted to investigate the association between ecigarette use and subsequent psychoactive substance use. Particularly, odds ratios (OR) for subsequent psychoactive substance use among e-cigarette ever users compared to never users and confidence intervals (CI) were extracted from seven studies (Lozano et al, 2021;Park et al, 2020;Bentivegna et al, 2021;Evans-Polce et al, 2020;Audrain-McGovern et al, 2018;Dai et al, 2018;Duan et al, 2022), and inserted into the Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Version III software (Borenstein et al, 2013). It was only possible to extract ORs representing the magnitude of the association between e-cigarette use and subsequent alcohol and cannabis use as these were the psychoactive substances most utilised by participants enrolled in the pooled studies.…”

“…Eight of the papers gathered participants from the USA, one from Mexico, and one from Germany. Three of the cohorts were sourced from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Survey (Bentivegna et al, 2021;Dai et al, 2018;Duan et al, 2022), three from the respective local region's schools (Audrain-McGovern et al, 2018;Lozano et al, 2017;Seidel et al, 2022), one from the local region's general population of adolescents (Park et al, 2020), one from the Monitoring the Future panel study (Evans-Polce et al, 2020), one from the Split for Science project (Ksinan et al, 2020) and one from the Happiness and Health Study (Lozano et al, 2021). The sample size of each cohort ranged from 801 to 19503 participants, and the total number of participants analysed was 57714.…”

“…The age range of participants at baseline measurement was 9-24 years. One study was conducted over a period of 1 year (Evans-Polce et al, 2020), one over a period of 1.7 years (Lozano et al, 2017), four studies over a period of 2 years (Audrain-McGovern et al, 2018, Dai et al, 2018, Park et al, 2020, Seidel et al, 2022, one over 3 years (Bentivegna et al, 2021), two over 4 years (Ksinan et al, 2020, Lozano et al, 2021, and one over 5 years (Duan et al, 2022) .…”

“…The association remained significant, even after adjusting for social-demographic and personality factors, other substance use, and peer cannabis use" (Seidel et al, 2022, p.1). Lozano et al (2021) tested the prospective association between e-cigarettes and alcohol use by gathering data every six months from 2013 to 2017. Use of e-cigarettes among adolescents who did not report any alcohol use at baseline was associated with greater odds of subsequent alcohol drinking initiation after adjusting for relevant covariates (e.g., other tobacco products use, biological sex, and age) (OR,3.95 [95 %CI,).…”