Rayes Bayan T, Alalwan Abdulaziz, AbuDujain Nasser M, Darraj Ali, Alammar Muath A, Jradi Hoda
King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, Department of Community and Environmental Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
University Family Medicine Center, Department of Family and Community Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Arch Clin Biomed Res. 2023;7(2):147-156. doi: 10.26502/acbr.50170327. Epub 2023 Mar 9.
Younger generations are an important market for the tobacco products industry since most smokers try their first cigarette before the age of 18. Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are a common mode of smoking among teens, and the number of users is increasing exponentially.
This study aimed to estimate the current prevalence of e-cigarettes and vaping usage among adolescents between the ages of 15 and 19 in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
This study was conducted among 534 students at four high schools. They were asked to complete a 23-item questionnaire retrieved from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis were conducted. The study was approved by the Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia Medical Research Center Institutional Review Board committee on October 10, 2018 (research number 18-506E).
A total of 109 (20.6%) of the participants reported being smokers of e-cigarettes. Being a male (OR = 1.55; 95% CI: [1.01-2.37]), in the second year of high school (OR = 2.91; 95% CI: [1.61-5.24], ever experimenting with regular tobacco cigarettes, being a current shisha smoker, living with a smoker, and believing that e-cigarettes are less addictive than traditional cigarettes are all factors independently associated with e-cigarette use in this sample of adolescents.
Among adolescent smokers, even minimal experience with smoking is correlated with pro-smoking attitudes. E-cigarette use is common in adolescents and related to the use of other combustible tobacco products. Tobacco control efforts at all levels should eliminate factors fostering future tobacco use to minimize the burden of disease and disability in vulnerable populations.
年轻一代是烟草制品行业的重要市场，因为大多数吸烟者在18岁之前就开始尝试第一支香烟。电子烟是青少年中常见的吸烟方式，且使用者数量呈指数级增长。
本研究旨在估计沙特阿拉伯麦加市15至19岁青少年中电子烟和水烟使用的当前流行率。
本研究在四所高中的534名学生中进行。他们被要求完成一份从全球青少年烟草调查中获取的包含23个条目的问卷。进行了描述性统计和回归分析。该研究于2018年10月10日获得沙特阿拉伯卫生部医学研究中心机构审查委员会的批准（研究编号18 - 506E）。
共有109名（20.6%）参与者报告吸食电子烟。男性（比值比 = 1.55；95%置信区间：[1.01 - 2.37]）、高中二年级学生（比值比 = 2.91；95%置信区间：[1.61 - 5.24]）、曾尝试吸食传统香烟、当前吸食水烟、与吸烟者同住以及认为电子烟比传统香烟成瘾性小，这些都是与该样本青少年电子烟使用独立相关的因素。
在青少年吸烟者中，即使是极少的吸烟经历也与支持吸烟的态度相关。电子烟在青少年中很常见，且与其他可燃烟草制品的使用有关。各级烟草控制措施应消除促进未来烟草使用的因素，以尽量减少弱势群体中的疾病和残疾负担。
