E-cigarette Use among Youth
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 4185
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2. Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Interests: nicotine dependence; flavors; tobacco and cannabis co-use
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Dear Colleagues,
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are popular among young people, despite being developed and branded as an alternative to combustible cigarettes for adult smokers. As a result, there are ongoing, lively, scientific discussions about the long-term health and behavioral implications of adolescent e-cigarette use. This Special Issue aims to meaningfully inform these discussions by inviting submissions across scientific disciplines to contribute original, innovative research articles and reviews related to adolescent e-cigarette use. Possible topics include:
- Behavioral studies of adolescent e-cigarette use. Broadly, this includes studies of trends and trajectories of adolescent e-cigarette use, innovative methods of measuring e-cigarette use and other variables (e.g., dependence), and identifying individual, social, or environmental predictors of e-cigarette use outcomes (e.g., initiation, cessation, dual/poly use). This includes studies of e-cigarette use on the transition to (or away from) combustible tobacco products.
- Intervention studies related to e-cigarette prevention, cessation, or communications. This includes formal evaluations; however, submissions detailing intervention pretesting, pilot testing, messaging development, or implementation science are also encouraged.
- Evaluative studies of e-cigarette regulatory policy and/or enforcement. This may include age restriction policies (e.g., Tobacco21) and enforcement (e.g., retail licensing; restricting online sales), flavor restrictions, projections and simulations to estimate the potential impacts of regulatory action.
- Given the use of e-cigarette devices for substances beyond nicotine, this study welcomes submissions related to the above topics, independent of the substance aerosolized by the e-cigarette device. For example, studies of cannabis vaping would be within the scope of this Special Issue and we encourage their submission.
Equitable information is required to generate equitable action. To this end, priority will be assigned to submissions demonstrating equitable representation in study design, sample, and/or implications. This does include identifying economic, geographic, and demographic disparities; however, this also includes studies using participatory methods and participant engagement.
Disclaimer: This presentation is not a formal dissemination of information by FDA and does not represent Agency position or policy. We will not accept research funded in part or full by any tobacco companies in this Special Issue. For more details, please check: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/12/2831/htm.
Dr. Dale Mantey
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- youth
- e-cigarettes
- tobacco
- nicotine
- cannabis
- equity
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