title: Prevalence of and beliefs about electronic cigarettes and hookah among high school students with asthma.
abstract: To assess current cigarette, hookah, and electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use among high school students with and without asthma. Beliefs and use of tobacco products by a household member were also examined.
  
  
  
  The 2014 Florida Youth Tobacco Survey was administered to high school students to assess current use of cigarettes, hookah, and e-cigarettes (i.e., within past 30 days). Student's home exposure and beliefs about cigarettes, hookah, and e-cigarettes were also assessed. Students were randomly selected using a two-stage cluster probability design.
  
  
  
  Adolescents with asthma had a higher prevalence of current hookah (14.0%) and e-cigarette use (12.4%) compared with their peers (10.9%, 10.2%, respectively). Adolescents with asthma were also at increased risk for current use of cigarettes (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]: 1.24), hookah (AOR: 1.32), and e-cigarettes (AOR: 1.34). Adolescents with asthma reported positive beliefs about tobacco products and were more likely to report living with individuals who used cigarettes (31.5%), hookah (12.1%), and e-cigarettes (15.5%) compared with their peers (26.5%, 8.5%, 12.5%, respectively).
  
  
  
  Adolescents with asthma reported tobacco product use, positive beliefs about tobacco products, and high potential home exposure to tobacco products. There is a pressing need for education regarding potential harm of alternative tobacco products among adolescents with asthma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical & Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville. Electronic address: dfedele@phhp.ufl.edu.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Fedele
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida, Gainesville.
authors.forename: Tracey E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Barnett
authors.affiliation: Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dekevich
authors.affiliation: Texas A&M University: Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi.
authors.forename: Linda M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Gibson-Young
authors.affiliation: Department of Health and Human Performance, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martinasek
authors.affiliation: Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL.
authors.forename: Meredith A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Jagger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000523:psychology*; D001294:Attitude to Health; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D066300:Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D000075387:Smoking Water Pipes / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D062789:Tobacco Products / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
keywords: Adolescent; Asthma; Smoking