Young people's use of e-cigarettes across the United Kingdom: findings from five surveys 2015-2017

Bauld, Linda, MacKintosh, Anne, Eastwood, Brian, Ford, Allison, Moore, Graham ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-3978, Dockrell, Martin, Arnott, Deborah, Cheeseman, Hazel and McNeill, Ann 2017. Young people's use of e-cigarettes across the United Kingdom: findings from five surveys 2015-2017. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 14 (9) , 973. 10.3390/ijerph14090973

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Abstract

Concern has been expressed about the use of e-cigarettes among young people. Our study reported e-cigarette and tobacco cigarette ever and regular use among 11–16 year olds across the UK. Data came from five large scale surveys with different designs and sampling strategies conducted between 2015 and 2017: The Youth Tobacco Policy Survey; the Schools Health Research Network Wales survey; two Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Smokefree Great Britain-Youth Surveys; and the Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey. Cumulatively these surveys collected data from over 60,000 young people. For 2015/16 data for 11–16 year olds: ever smoking ranged from 11% to 20%; regular (at least weekly) smoking between 1% and 4%; ever use of e-cigarettes 7% to 18%; regular (at least weekly) use 1% to 3%; among never smokers, ever e-cigarette use ranged from 4% to 10% with regular use between 0.1% and 0.5%; among regular smokers, ever e-cigarette use ranged from 67% to 92% and regular use 7% to 38%. ASH surveys showed a rise in the prevalence of ever use of e-cigarettes from 7% (2016) to 11% (2017) but prevalence of regular use did not change remaining at 1%. In summary, surveys across the UK show a consistent pattern: most e-cigarette experimentation does not turn into regular use, and levels of regular use in young people who have never smoked remain very low.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	MDPI AG
ISSN:	1660-4601
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 August 2017
Date of Acceptance:	22 August 2017
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2023 21:09
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/104106

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