Daily E-cigarette Use and the Surge in JUUL Sales: 2017-2019

To identify how the 2017 rapid surge in sales of JUUL e-cigarettes affected usage among US youth and young adults. Annual surveys in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study assess tobacco use by product and brand among the US population. We identified 2 cohorts aged 14 to 34 years, 1 w...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 2022-06, Vol.149 (6)
Main Authors: Pierce, John P, Zhang, Jasen, Crotty Alexander, Laura E, Leas, Eric C, Kealey, Sheila, White, Martha M, Strong, David R, Trinidad, Dennis R, McMenamin, Sara B, Chen, Ruifeng, Benmarhnia, Tarik, Messer, Karen
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Summary:To identify how the 2017 rapid surge in sales of JUUL e-cigarettes affected usage among US youth and young adults. Annual surveys in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study assess tobacco use by product and brand among the US population. We identified 2 cohorts aged 14 to 34 years, 1 with baseline survey in 2014 before the rapid surge of JUUL and the other in 2017 as the surge in JUUL sales was occurring. For 5 age groups, we compared 2-year incidence of first tobacco use and of new-onset daily tobacco use by product, and report levels of dependence. Sociodemographic variables and rates of experimentation with any tobacco product were similar between cohorts. Among baseline nondaily tobacco users, only those aged 14 to 17 years had an increase in the 2-year incidence of new daily tobacco use (2014 cohort = 4.8%, 95% confidence interval 4.3, 5.5 vs 2017 cohort = 6.3%, 95% confidence interval 5.8-7.0) to rates approaching those in the 1990s. In 2019, three-quarters of new daily tobacco users aged 14 to 17 vaped daily and had e-cigarette dependence scores similar to daily cigarette smokers and older adult e-cigarette vapers. We estimate that about 600 000 Americans aged
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.2021-055379