The Relation between Frequency of E-Cigarette Use and Frequency and Intensity of Cigarette Smoking among South Korean Adolescents

• DOI: 10.20944/preprints201703.0074.v1
• Publication Date: 2017-03-16T15:31:44Z
• Authors: Jung Ah Lee; Sungkyu Lee; Hong-Jun Cho
• Keywords: Curiosity; Electronic cigarette

Introduction The prevalence of adolescent electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use has increased in most countries. This study determines the relation between frequency e-cigarette and intensity smoking. Furthermore, it evaluates association reasons for its use. Materials Methods Participants were 68,043 middle high school students aged 13–18 years from 2015 Korean Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey. Of participants, we analyzed 6,655 adolescents with an experience Results ever using current (past 30 days) e-cigarettes was 10.1% 3.9%, respectively. users, approximately 40% used ≥1/month 8.1% daily. Daily users 10 times greater among daily smokers than <1/month (18.1% vs. 1.8%) 16 more prevalent those smoking ≥20 cigarettes/day <1 cigarette/month (38.9% 2.4%). common reason curiosity (22.9%), followed by less harmful conventional cigarettes (18.9%), cessation (13.1%), indoor (10.7%). Curiosity frequent users; however, users. Conclusions showed a positive or adolescents, differed according to e-cigarettes.