Patterns of E-cigarette Use Frequency—National Adult Tobacco Survey, 2012–2014

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Prev Med
• Personal Author:
  Sharapova, Saida R. ; Singh, Tushar ; Agaku, Israel T. ; Kennedy, Sara M. ; King, Brian A.
• Description:
  Introduction
  
  Accounting for occasional or intermittent e-cigarette use has yielded higher estimates of current use among U.S. adults. However, frequency of e-cigarette use by population subgroups is not well described. This study assessed e-cigarette use frequency by sociodemographic characteristics and other tobacco product use among U.S. adults.
  
  Methods
  
  This study analyzed combined data from the 2012–2013 (n = 60,192) and 2013–2014 (n=75,233) National Adult Tobacco Survey, a telephone-based survey of U.S. adults aged ≥18 years, to assess frequency of e-cigarette use (daily, some days, rarely) by sex, age, race/ethnicity, education, annual household income, U.S. region, marital status, sexual orientation, and cigarette smoking and other tobacco product use (cigars, cigarillos, little filtered cigars; traditional pipes; water pipes; and chewing tobacco, snuff, dip, snus, and dissolvable tobacco products). Analyses took place in 2016.
  
  Results
  
  Among current e-cigarette users, 19.3% used daily, 29.3% used some days, and 51.4% used rarely. Daily use was lowest among younger adults, Hispanics, and those who were single, never married, or not living with a partner; and greatest among non-Hispanic Asians (p<0.0001). Among current e-cigarette users, 25.3% were cigarette-only smokers, 52.8% smoked cigarettes and used other tobacco products, 5.5% used other tobacco products only, 6.5% were former cigarette-only smokers, 6.7% were former users of cigarettes and other tobacco products, 1.3% were former other tobacco product users only, and 1.8% never used cigarettes or other tobacco products.
  
  Conclusions
  
  E-cigarette use frequency varies by sociodemographic characteristics and other tobacco use. Further surveillance, particularly related to frequency of e-cigarette use and its impact on cigarette cessation, could inform public health policy, planning, and practice.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Article
• Source:
  Am J Prev Med. 54(2):284-288
• Pubmed ID:
  29129463
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5783765
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  54
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3c9aa28bf6aaf037f07e44732a0aba5c5793383bd2e977b860eaefc5e5928a0b
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