Associations Between Perceptions of e-Cigarette Harmfulness and Addictiveness and the Age of E-Cigarette Initiation Among the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Youth

• Main Authors: Meagan A. Bluestein (Author), Melissa B. Harrell (Author), Emily T. Hébert (Author), Baojiang Chen (Author), Arnold E. Kuk (Author), Charles E. Spells (Author), Adriana Pérez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction Youth perceptions of harmfulness and addictiveness of e-cigarettes may impact the age that they initiate e-cigarette use, but this has not been investigated previously. Methods Youth (12-17 years old) never e-cigarette users at their first wave of PATH participation (waves 1-3, 2013-201...