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Substance use among adult marijuana and nicotine e-cigarette or vaping product users, 2020
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9 2022
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Source: Addict Behav. 132:107349
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Alternative Title:Addict Behav
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Description:Introduction:
Co-use of marijuana and tobacco/nicotine have unknown impacts on addiction and health. There are limited data on the extent to which adults are co-using tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)- and nicotine-containing products, in any of their various modes. This study describes adult use of THC- and nicotine-containing products among electronic vaping product (EVP) users.
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Data on marijuana and tobacco use were collected from February 25– 29, 2020 through an online survey of adults aged ≥ 18 years who reported using THC- and nicotine-containing electronic vaping products (EVPs) in the past 3 months (n = 3,980). Survey respondents from 18 states participated in the U.S. YouGov panel, a proprietary opt-in internet panel survey of 1.8 million U.S. residents.
Results:
Among those who reported using nicotine and THC-containing EVPs in the past 3 months, 90.1% of respondents reported smoking marijuana in the past 3 months; 82.7% reported smoking as the most frequent mode of marijuana use. Almost 63% of EVP users reported smoking cigarettes; 55.6% reported smoking for over 8 years, while 7.7% had been smoking cigarettes for under a year.
Conclusions:
In this study, respondents reported cigarette smoking and marijuana smoking in addition to using marijuana- and nicotine- containing EVPs. Considering the unknown health effects of co-use of tobacco and THC-containing products, the finding that adults are vaping THC and nicotine alongside traditional modes of marijuana and tobacco use of these substances warrants further investigation.
Implications:
Findings from this study provide evidence that adults who use nicotine and THC EVPs are also using a variety of other THC-containing and tobacco-containing products. This indicates the importance of continued surveillance to assess trends of polysubstance EVP and multi-modal marijuana and tobacco use. Monitoring various modes of marijuana and tobacco use may inform policies, prevention education, communication, and cessation tools.
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Pubmed ID:35580371
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC11056937
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