Prevalence and Harm Perceptions of Various Tobacco Products Among College Students

Latimer, Lara A.; Batanova, Milena; Loukas, Alexandra

doi:10.1093/ntr/ntt174

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“…This is consistent with previous research finding smokers incorrectly believing that various unregulated tobacco products are evaluated for safety by the government, an issue that might impart some false sense of security. 15 16 However, we also found that when prompted the vast majority of smokers believed that they should be regulated by the FDA for safety and quality, a finding which directly supports the FDA's proposed rule to do so. Although support was high among all groups, it was notably highest (96.3%) among black smokers.…”

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confidence: 64%

Smokers’ attitudes and support for e-cigarette policies and regulation in the USA: Table 1

Wackowski

Delnevo

2015

Tob Control

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Background In April 2014, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a rule to extend its tobacco regulatory authority to e-cigarettes, which have been unregulated and growing in use since their 2006–2007 US introduction. The FDA will issue a final rule based on comments and data received from researchers, tobacco companies and the public. We aimed to present data about current smokers’ awareness of and attitudes towards potential e-cigarette regulation and various policies in the United States. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional online e-cigarette focused survey of 519 adult current smokers in April 2014, before the FDA’s proposed rule was announced. Participants were recruited from a private research panel (GFK’s Knowledge Networks) designed to be representative of the U.S. population. Results The majority of respondents (62.5%) did not know that e-cigarettes are unregulated by the FDA but agreed that e-cigarettes should be regulated by the FDA for safety and quality (83.5%), carry warning labels about their potential risks (86.6%), and have the same legal age of sale as other tobacco (87.7%). Support was similarly high among current e-cigarette users. Support was substantial though lower overall for policies to restrict e-cigarette indoor use (41.2%), flavoring (44.3%) and advertising (55.5%), and was negatively associated with current e-cigarette use. Conclusions Support for many e-cigarette regulatory policies is strong among smokers, including for policies that the FDA has recently proposed and potential future regulations. States considering indoor e-cigarette restrictions should know that a substantial number of current smokers support such regulations.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 64%

Smokers’ attitudes and support for e-cigarette policies and regulation in the USA: Table 1

Wackowski

Delnevo

2015

Tob Control

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“…The bivariate association between intentions and subsequent e-cigarette use was minimal, whereas the positive bivariate associations between intentions and the other two novel products were small to moderate. Intentions to use cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana may predict subsequent use of hookah and little cigars but not e-cigarettes because the latter may be perceived differently, perhaps as less “drug-like.” Supporting this account, emerging adults perceived e-cigarettes as less dangerous than conventional cigarettes [36] and less harmful than other novel products [37] and, in a prospective study, emerging adults’ perception of less harm predicted initiation of e-cigarette use [38]. …”

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confidence: 99%

Prospective Predictors of Novel Tobacco and Nicotine Product Use in Emerging Adulthood

Hampson

Andrews

Severson

et al. 2015

Journal of Adolescent Health

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Objective To investigate whether risk factors for cigarette smoking assessed in adolescence predict the use of novel tobacco and nicotine products (hookah, little cigars, and e-cigarettes) in early emerging adulthood. Methods In a longitudinal study (N = 862), risk factors were measured in middle and high school and novel product use was measured in emerging adulthood (mean age 22.4 years). Structural equation modelling was used to test a model predicting lifetime use of any of hookah, little cigars, and e-cigarettes in early emerging adulthood from distal predictors (gender, maternal smoking through Grade 8, already tried alcohol, cigarettes, or marijuana by Grade 8, and sensation seeking at Grade 8), and potential mediators (intentions to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol or smoke marijuana at Grade 9, and smoking trajectory across high school). Results The most prevalent novel tobacco product was hookah (21.7%), followed by little cigars (16.8%), and e-cigarettes (6.6%). Maternal smoking, having already tried substances, and sensation seeking each predicted the use of at least one of these products via an indirect path through intentions to use substances and membership in a high school smoking trajectory. Conclusions Risk factors for cigarette smoking were found to predict novel tobacco use, suggesting that interventions to prevent cigarette smoking could be extended to include common novel tobacco products.

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“…Additional research is needed to determine whether similar patterns of product use over time occurred in other racial groups and in other geographic regions. E-cigarettes have gained popularity in recent years, in part because of availability in a wide variety of flavorings 21 that may be appealing to adolescents and young adults, 22 the perception that e-cigarettes are less harmful than smoking, 23 absence or poor enforcement of regulations on indoor use, 24 and the recent popularity of product-specific venues that encourage use of these products in social situations, such as vape shops. 25 Such characteristics of e-cigarettes may be recruiting new users who are deterred from initiating cigarettes because of concerns about the health hazards of smoking and social stigmatization of cigarette use.…”

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E-cigarettes, Cigarettes, and the Prevalence of Adolescent Tobacco Use

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Prevalence and Harm Perceptions of Various Tobacco Products Among College Students

Cited by 63 publications

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Smokers’ attitudes and support for e-cigarette policies and regulation in the USA: Table 1

Smokers’ attitudes and support for e-cigarette policies and regulation in the USA: Table 1

Prospective Predictors of Novel Tobacco and Nicotine Product Use in Emerging Adulthood

E-cigarettes, Cigarettes, and the Prevalence of Adolescent Tobacco Use

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