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: Received: 12 November 2022 / Approved: 17 November 2022 / Online: 17 November 2022 (02:29:42 CET)
How to cite:
McKeganey, N.; Patton, A.; Marza, V.; Barnard, G. Prevalence of BIDI® Stick E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults in the United States. Preprints2022, 2022110319. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202211.0319.v1
McKeganey, N.; Patton, A.; Marza, V.; Barnard, G. Prevalence of BIDI® Stick E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults in the United States. Preprints 2022, 2022110319. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202211.0319.v1
McKeganey, N.; Patton, A.; Marza, V.; Barnard, G. Prevalence of BIDI® Stick E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults in the United States. Preprints2022, 2022110319. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202211.0319.v1
APA Style
McKeganey, N., Patton, A., Marza, V., & Barnard, G. (2022). Prevalence of BIDI® Stick E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults in the United States. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202211.0319.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
McKeganey, N., Venus Marza and Gabriel Barnard. 2022 "Prevalence of BIDI® Stick E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults in the United States" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202211.0319.v1
Abstract
Background: In the 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey disposable e-cigarette devices are shown to be the most widely used e-cigarette devices amongst U.S. youth. In this paper we report the results of research designed to estimate the prevalence of use of BIDI® Stick branded e-cigarettes amongst youth (aged 13 to 17), and under-age young adults (aged 18 to 20) in the U.S.
Methods: Cross sectional online survey of a nationally representative sample of 1,215 youth (13 17 years) recruited via the IPSOS probability-based KnowledgePanel and 3,370 young adults aged 18 to 24 - amongst whom 1,125 were aged 18 to 20.
Results: Amongst youth aged 13 to 17, 0.91% [95% CI: 0.44-1.68] or 190,000 [95% CI: 90,000-350,000] youth reported having ever used a BIDI® Stick branded product and 0.04% [95% CI: 0.00-0.38] or less than 10,000 youth reported currently using a BIDI® Stick branded product. Amongst those young adults aged 18 to 20, 3.90% [95% CI: 2.49-5.81] or 470,000 [95%CI: 300,000-700,000] reported having ever used a BIDI® Stick product whilst 0.60% [95% CI: 0.17-1.55] or 70,000 [95% CI: 20,000-180,000] reported they now use a BIDI® Stick product “every day” or “some days”.
Conclusions: The low prevalence of youth and underage adult current use of the BIDI® Stick e cigarette suggests that this product is not responsible for the recent growth in the use of disposable e-cigarettes by youth within the U.S. as demonstrated by the 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey.
Keywords
Disposable E-cigarettes Youth Young Adult Prevalence
Subject
Social Sciences, Behavior Sciences
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