Awareness and Use of Non-conventional Tobacco Products Among U.S. Students, 2012

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Prev Med
• Personal Author:
  Wang, Baoguang ; King, Brian A. ; Corey, Catherine G. ; Arrazola, René A. ; Johnson, Sarah E.
• Description:
  Background
  
  Increasing diversity of the tobacco product landscape, including electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), hookah, snus, and dissolvable tobacco products (dissolvables), raises concerns about the public health impact of these non-conventional tobacco products among youth.
  
  Purpose
  
  This study assessed awareness, ever use, and current use of non-conventional tobacco products among U.S. students in 2012, overall and by demographic and tobacco use characteristics.
  
  Methods
  
  Data from the 2012 National Youth Tobacco Survey, a nationally representative survey of U.S. middle and high school students, were analyzed in 2013. Prevalence of awareness, ever use, and current use of e-cigarettes, hookah, snus, and dissolvables were calculated overall and by sex, school level, race/ethnicity, and conventional tobacco product use, including cigarettes, cigars, or smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco, snuff, or dip).
  
  Results
  
  Overall, 50.3% of students were aware of e-cigarettes; prevalence of ever and current use of e-cigarettes was 6.8% and 2.1%, respectively. Awareness of hookah was 41.2% among all students, and that of ever and current use were 8.9% and 3.6%, respectively. Overall awareness; ever; and current use of snus (32%, 5.3%, 1.7%, respectively) and dissolvables (19.3%, 2.0%, 0.7%, respectively) were generally lower than those of e-cigarettes or hookah. Conventional tobacco product users were more likely to be aware of and to use non-conventional tobacco products.
  
  Conclusions
  
  Many U.S. students are aware of and use non-conventional tobacco products. Evidence-based interventions should be implemented to prevent and reduce all tobacco use among youth.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Article Awareness Child Cross-Sectional Studies Data Collection Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Female Humans Male Prevalence Public Health Smoking Students Tobacco, Smokeless Tobacco Products

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• Source:
  Am J Prev Med. 47(2 0 1):S36-S52
• Pubmed ID:
  25044194
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4519346
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  47
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:88376b78986f3564446c8d92d519aa635834647cf26166b9213edf45727b413a
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/32545/cdc_32545_DS1.pdf
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