Social Media Use and Subsequent E-Cigarette Susceptibility, Initiation, and Continued Use Among US Adolescents

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Lee, Juhan ; Krishnan-Sarin, Suchitra ; Kong, Grace
• Description:
  Introduction
  
  Social media has a large amount of e-cigarette content. Little is known about the associations between social media use and a wide range of e-cigarette use behaviors, including susceptibility, initiation, and continued use. We analyzed national data on US adolescents to assess these associations.
  
  Methods
  
  We used data on adolescents participating in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study Wave 4 (2016–2018) and Wave 5 (2018–2019). We conducted 2 models: 1) a multinomial logistic regression on e-cigarette use susceptibility and use behaviors at Wave 5 by social media use at Wave 4 among adolescents who never used e-cigarettes at Wave 4 and 2) a binomial logistic regression on current e-cigarette use at Wave 5 by social media use at Wave 4 among adolescents who ever used e-cigarettes at Wave 4.
  
  Results
  
  Among adolescents who never used e-cigarettes at Wave 4 (n = 7,872), daily social media use (vs never) was associated with a higher likelihood of being susceptible to e-cigarette use (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] =1.46; 95% CI, 1.20–1.78), past e-cigarette use (aOR = 3.55; 95% CI, 2.49–5.06), and current e-cigarette use (aOR = 3.45; 95% CI, 2.38–5.02) at Wave 5. Among adolescents who ever used e-cigarettes at Wave 4 (n = 794), we found no significant association between social media use at Wave 4 and continued e-cigarette use at Wave 5.
  
  Conclusion
  
  Our study found that social media use is associated with subsequent susceptibility to e-cigarette use and initiation but not with continued use of e-cigarettes among US adolescents. These findings suggest that understanding and addressing the association between social media and e-cigarette use is critical.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Humans Nicotiana Odds Ratio Population Health Social Media
• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 2023; 20
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd20.220415
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Pubmed ID:
  37676857
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10487785
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 DA049878/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U54 DA036151/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR001863/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  20
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
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