• Drug Alcohol Depend · Feb 2021

    Association between observing peers vaping on campus and E-cigarette use and susceptibility in middle and high school students.

    • Dale S Mantey, Onyinye Omega-Njemnobi, Felisa A Ruiz, Tara L Vaughn, Steven H Kelder, and Andrew E Springer.
    • UT Health Science Center at Houston, UT Health, School of Public Health in Austin, 1616 Guadalupe, Suite 6.300, Austin, TX 78701, USA. Electronic address: dale.s.mantey@uth.tmc.edu.
    • Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 Feb 1; 219: 108476.

    BackgroundThis study examines the association between exposure to e-cigarette use on school campus and e-cigarette use behaviors among adolescents in the United States.MethodsData were obtained from the 2019 National Youth Tobacco Survey. First, two multivariate logistic regression models examined the association between in-school exposure to e-cigarette use and ever and past 30-day (i.e., current) e-cigarette use. Next, a multivariate logistic regression model to examine the relationship between in-school exposure to e-cigarette use and susceptibility to use was conducted among a subsample (n = 11,958) of never e-cigarette users. Covariates included grade, race/ethnicity, marketing exposure, and ever use of other tobacco products.ResultsApproximately 64.3 % of adolescents reported seeing someone use an e-cigarette on school campus; the most common locations being in the bathroom/locker room (34.4 %) and parking lot (34.0 %). In-school exposure to e-cigarette use was associated with greater odds of ever (Adj OR: 2.06; 95 % CI: 1.82-2.33) and current (Adj OR: 1.70; 95 % CI: 1.46-1.98) e-cigarette use among adolescents as well as greater odds of susceptibility to use (Adj OR: 2.00; 95 % CI: 1.82-2.20) among never e-cigarette users.ConclusionsObserving e-cigarette use on school campus was associated with greater odds of e-cigarette use and susceptibility. It is plausible that observing e-cigarette use on campus reinforces the social acceptability of adolescent e-cigarette use. Findings inform on the prevalence of e-cigarettes use on-campus as well as how this phenomenon may influence e-cigarette use/susceptibility among youth. The observed relationship highlights the role of schools in the efforts to reduce adolescent e-cigarette use.Copyright © 2020. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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