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Uso de cigarrillos electrónicos entre los jóvenes en los Estados Unidos, 2019

Karen A Cullen¹, Andrea S Gentzke², Michael D Sawdey¹

¹Center for Tobacco Products, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland.

|November 6, 2019

Resumen

En 2019, el uso de cigarrillos electrónicos se mantuvo alto entre los jóvenes estadounidenses. Muchos estudiantes de secundaria y secundaria informaron su uso frecuente, y la mayoría de los usuarios exclusivos prefirieron los cigarrillos electrónicos con sabor, lo que pone de relieve las preocupaciones actuales de salud pública.

Área de la Ciencia:

Salud pública
Salud de los adolescentes
El control del tabaco

Sus antecedentes:

La prevalencia del uso de cigarrillos electrónicos entre los jóvenes estadounidenses aumentó significativamente entre 2011 y 2018.
El seguimiento continuo es crucial para informar la política de salud pública y las medidas reglamentarias relativas al consumo de productos de tabaco por parte de los jóvenes.

Objetivo del estudio:

Estimar la prevalencia del uso de cigarrillos electrónicos en 2019 entre los estudiantes de secundaria y secundaria de los Estados Unidos.
Para analizar la frecuencia de uso, las marcas populares y el uso de cigarrillos electrónicos con sabores.

Principales métodos:

Análisis transversal de los datos de la Encuesta Nacional sobre el Tabaquismo Juvenil de 2019.
Una muestra representativa a nivel nacional de 19.018 estudiantes de los grados 6 a 12 participaron.
Datos recopilados sobre el uso actual (los últimos 30 días), la frecuencia, la marca habitual y las preferencias de sabor.

Principales resultados:

En 2019, el 27.5% de los estudiantes de secundaria y el 10.5% de los estudiantes de secundaria informaron el uso actual de cigarrillos electrónicos.
El uso frecuente (≥20 días/ mes) fue reportado por el 34,2% de los usuarios de secundaria y el 18,0% de los usuarios de secundaria.
Entre los usuarios exclusivos, el 72,2% de los estudiantes de secundaria y el 59,2% de los estudiantes de secundaria usaron cigarrillos electrónicos con sabor, siendo los sabores de fruta, mentol / menta y dulces los más populares.

Conclusiones:

El uso de cigarrillos electrónicos sigue siendo un problema de salud pública importante entre los jóvenes estadounidenses en 2019.
El uso frecuente y una gran preferencia por los productos aromatizados entre los usuarios exclusivos justifican una atención continua y estrategias de intervención.

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