The effect on
cigarette use remained significant at the 0.10 level after such adjustment, but not at the 0.05 level.
Not exact matches
To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-
cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future
use of conventional
cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever
used e-
cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report
using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not
used e -
cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and
remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with
cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as
cigarette susceptibility.
In the past decade, daily marijuana
use among 12th graders has
remained relatively consistent, but daily
cigarette smoking has dropped.
«Developing a better understanding of the relationship between marijuana
use and
cigarette use transitions is critical and timely as
cigarette smoking
remains the leading preventable cause of premature death and disease, and
use of cannabis is on the rise in the U.S.,» said Renee Goodwin, PhD, in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and senior author.
The ordinary -
use defense
remains viable, he said, «if there are unusual circumstances making the
use of
cigarettes unreasonable.»