Youth e-cigarette use is a major public health concern due to the rapid increase of initiation and use, and the concurrent lack of established regulation and understanding about its effects, including that e-cigarette use may influence subsequent tobacco use and dual use. This study will be one of the first to use ecological momentary assessments (EMA) and survey data to obtain data from youth (ages 13-17) e-cigarette only users and dual users of e-cigarettes and tobacco in order to assess within-person and between-person associations of e-cigarette and tobacco access, exposure, motivations, use, willingness and intentions. The results of this feasibility study will provide strong preliminary data, including effect sizes, to guide the design of a larger, more rigorous R01 study to address significant shortcomings in the literature and inform the FDA CTP priorities.
This project was an R03 funded by NIDA.
