title: E-cigarette use among Serbian adults: prevalence and user characteristics.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective was to report the prevalence and characteristics of electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) users in order to inform an appropriate response to this emerging challenge in tobacco control.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were drawn from a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2014 that used computer-assisted interviewing in a representative sample of 5385 Serbian adults age 18-64 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Lifetime e-cigarette use and current use was reported by 9.6 and 2 % of adults, respectively. Younger adults had a higher prevalence of both lifetime and current use. Females were more likely to be current e-cigarette users than males. The majority of ever and current e-cigarette users were current or past cigarette smokers, but lifetime use was reported by non-smokers as well.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Electronic cigarettes are popular in Serbia; one in ten adults had tried them at least once. Because females and young adults were more likely to use e-cigarettes, a targeted response in these specific groups is needed. A standardised methodology for monitoring e-cigarette use should be established and surveys exploring motives for and attitudes towards e-cigarettes use should be conducted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Addictology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic. kilibarda_b@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Biljana
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kilibarda
authors.affiliation: Department of Addictology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.|National Institute of Mental Health, Prague, Czech Republic.|National Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Addiction, Office of Government of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Viktor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mravcik
authors.affiliation: Department of Addictology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.|Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Suchtforschung der Universität Hamburg, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Marcus Sebastian
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Martens
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D066300:Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D055771:Serbia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: E-cigarette; Electronic cigarette; Prevalence; Socio-demographic correlates
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