Titre : | E-cigarette: A new tobacco product for schoolchildren in Paris (2013) |
Auteurs : | DAUTZENBERG, B. ; P. BIRKUI ; M. NOEL ; J. DORSETT ; M. OSMAN ; M. D. DAUTZENBERG |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Open Journal of Respiratory Diseases (Vol.3, n°1, February 2013) |
Article en page(s) : | 21-24 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus géographique FRANCE ; VILLE DE PARISThésaurus mots-clés MILIEU SCOLAIRE ; E-CIGARETTE ; ENFANT ; ADOLESCENT ; ENQUETE ; INITIATION ; TABAC |
Résumé : |
Objectives: To explore if the dramatic decrease in price of e-cigarette has transformed this new product into a product used for tobacco initiation among a teenage population.
Methods: The authors added a question in 2012 on e-cigarette in the yearly survey on tobacco consumption in Paris schoolchildren. The study is conducted on a randomly selected sample from 2% of classes since 1991. Results: 277 (8.1%) of the 3409 schoolchildren studied (including 575 non responders to this question) reported having had an experience with e-cigarette. Experimentation rate is 6.4% among the 12-14-year-old, 11.8% among the 15-16-year-old and 9% among the 17-year-old schoolchildren. Among the 12-14-year-old schoolchildren, 64.4% of e-cigarette experimentation was by non-smokers. Of the 17-year-old teenagers who had used e-cigarettes, 12.4% were non-smokers. For the whole population, 33.2% of those having tried e-cigarette are non-smoker, 22.7% occasional smoker, 3.6% ex-smoker and 40.4% daily smoker. Those who experiment cannabis, shisha or binge-drinking are more frequently users of e-cigarette. In the smoker group, there is an inverse trend of relationship between the readiness to quit tobacco and the rate of use of e-cigarette. Conclusion: For teenager's, e-cigarettes have become not a product to aid quit tobacco but a product for experimentation and initiation of cigarette use. Regulation is urgently needed to control the emergent use of this new tobacco product by children. |
Domaine : | Tabac / Tobacco / e-cigarette |
Refs biblio. : | 11 |
Lien : | http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojrd.2013.31004 |
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