Disposable E-cigarette Use among U.S. Youth - an Emerging Public Health Challenge.
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
Wang
TW, Gentzke AS, Neff LJ, Glidden EV, Jamal A, King BA, Hacker KA, Park-Lee E,
Ren C, Cullen KA. Disposable E-cigarette Use among U.S.
Youth - an Emerging Public Health Challenge.
N Engl J Med. 2021 Mar 16. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2033943. Epub ahead of print.
PMID: 33725431.
Using National Youth Tobacco Survey data, this study assessed the changes in
device type-specific e-cigarette use during 2019 and 2020. Among middle school
students currently using any type of e-cigarette, disposable e-cigarette use
was reported by 3.0% in 2019 (30,000 students), and by 15.2% in 2020 (80,000
students). Among high school students currently using any type of e-cigarettes,
disposable e-cigarette use was reported by 2.4% in 2019 (90,000 students) and
26.5% in 2020 (790,000 students). Among all middle school students, disposable
e-cigarette use was reported by 0.3% in 2019 and by 0.7% in 2020; 0.7% and 5.1%
of all high school students reported disposable e-cigarette use in 2019 and
2020, respectively. Prefilled pods or cartridges remained the most commonly
used device type in 2020 (220,000 middle school students and 1.45 million high
school students). These findings reinforce the rapidly dynamic nature of the
e-cigarette landscape and the need for clinicians, public health practitioners,
and the general public to keep pace with these changes.
The article is available online at this link: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2033943
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