Teens More Likely to Follow Friends and Use E-Cigs

Positive attitudes toward e-cigarettes from friends and family were associated with their use among teens, according a small survey of Southern California high school students.

In the survey of more than 2,000 students, there was a greater risk of vaping by teens associated with a greater number of their friends using e-cigarettes, and a more favorable reaction to e-cigarettes by their best friends (P<0.05), reported Jessica L. Barrington-Trimis, PhD, of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and colleagues.

Almost all (91%) of current e-cigarette users said they would receive a positive ("friendly") response to their e-cigarette use from their best friends compared to less than a third (31%) of never-users (adjusted OR 18.6, 95% CI 10.9-31.6), the researchers reported in Pediatrics.

These attitudes extended to the teenager's home life, as e-cigarette users were more than six times more likely to also have an e-cigarette user at...

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