title: E-Cigarette Use Among Never-Smoking California Students.
abstract: We determined the extent to which adolescents who have never used tobacco try e-cigarettes. Data on the prevalence and correlates of e-cigarette use among 482,179 California middle and high school students are from the 2013-2014 California Healthy Kids Survey. Overall, 24.4% had ever used e-cigarettes (13.4% have never used tobacco and 11.0% have used tobacco), and 12.9% were current e-cigarette users (5.9% have never used tobacco). Among those who have never used tobacco, males and older students were more likely to use e-cigarettes than females and younger students. Hispanics (odds ratio [OR] = 1.60; confidence interval [CI] = 1.53, 1.67) and those of other races (OR = 1.24; CI = 1.19, 1.29) were more likely than Whites to have ever used e-cigarettes, but only among those who had never used smokeless tobacco and never smoked a whole cigarette. E-cigarette use is very prevalent among California students who have never smoked tobacco, especially among Hispanic and other race students, males, and older students.
authors.affiliation: Georgiana Bostean is with the Sociology Department and Environmental Science & Policy Program, Chapman University, Orange, CA. Dennis R. Trinidad is with the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego. William J. McCarthy is with the Center for Cancer Prevention & Control Research, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles.
authors.forename: Georgiana
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bostean
authors.affiliation: Georgiana Bostean is with the Sociology Department and Environmental Science & Policy Program, Chapman University, Orange, CA. Dennis R. Trinidad is with the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego. William J. McCarthy is with the Center for Cancer Prevention & Control Research, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles.
authors.forename: Dennis R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Trinidad
authors.affiliation: Georgiana Bostean is with the Sociology Department and Environmental Science & Policy Program, Chapman University, Orange, CA. Dennis R. Trinidad is with the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego. William J. McCarthy is with the Center for Cancer Prevention & Control Research, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles.
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: McCarthy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002140:California / Q000453:epidemiology; D066300:Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires