East Katherine, Taylor Eve V, Simonavičius Erikas, Reid Jessica L, Burkhalter Robin, McNeill Ann, Hammond David
National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
School of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Addiction. 2025 Mar;120(3):414-422. doi: 10.1111/add.16463. Epub 2024 Mar 21.
Elf Bar is currently the leading e-cigarette (vape) brand in Great Britain. This study examined youth and young adults' use of Elf Bar, socio-demographic characteristics and dependence indicators and reasons for use over other brands.
Cross-sectional survey.
Online 2022 International Tobacco Control Project Youth Tobacco and Vaping Survey (N = 1355 16-29-year-olds in England who had vaped in the past 30 days).
Currently using Elf Bar most often (versus other brands) and associations with: socio-demographics, owning a vaping device, dependence indicators and reasons for brand choice. Logistic regressions were used.
Among 16-29-year-olds who vaped in the past 30 days, 48.4% (n = 732) reported Elf Bar as the brand they used most often. Among 16-17-year-olds, 40.7% used Elf Bar over other brands; this was lower than among 18-19-year-olds (60.1%) and 20-29-year-olds (47.4%) (P ≤ 0.002). Using Elf Bar over other brands was higher among those who were female (55.2 versus 41.5% male), identified as White (53.1 versus 30.9% other/mixed), a student (54.5 versus 44.3% not), did not own a vape (66.7 versus 44.4% who did) and typically vaped 5-8 hours after waking (62.7 versus 36.8% within 5 min) (P ≤ 0.044). Most who vaped but had never smoked used Elf Bar (64.3%), although use did not significantly differ from those who currently (45.4%), formerly (42.3%) or experimentally (48.7%) smoked (all P ≥ 0.060). Popular reasons for choosing Elf Bar over other brands were better flavour/taste (47.5%), less expensive (28.7%), easier to get (26.1%), smoother to inhale (24.0%) and popularity (23.1%). 'Better for quitting smoking' (10.1%) was least frequently selected reason for choosing Elf Bar over other brands.
Elf Bar brand e-cigarettes were used by approximately half of 16-29-year-olds who vaped in England in 2022 and was mainly chosen over other brands for subjective responses (e.g. flavour/taste), rather than for quitting smoking.
精灵棒目前是英国领先的电子烟品牌。本研究调查了青少年及青年对精灵棒的使用情况、社会人口学特征、依赖指标以及选择该品牌而非其他品牌的原因。
横断面调查。
2022年在线国际烟草控制项目青少年烟草与电子烟调查（N = 1355名过去30天内吸过电子烟的英格兰16 - 29岁人群）。
目前最常使用精灵棒（与其他品牌相比）以及与以下因素的关联：社会人口学特征、拥有电子烟设备、依赖指标和品牌选择原因。使用逻辑回归分析。
在过去30天内吸过电子烟的16 - 29岁人群中，48.4%（n = 732）报告称精灵棒是他们最常使用的品牌。在16 - 17岁人群中，40.7%选择精灵棒而非其他品牌；这一比例低于18 - 19岁人群（60.1%）和20 - 29岁人群（47.4%）（P≤0.002）。与其他品牌相比，女性（55.2%，男性为41.5%）、白人（53.1%，其他/混血为30.9%）、学生（54.5%，非学生为44.3%）、没有电子烟设备的人（66.7%，有设备的人为44.4%）以及通常在醒来后5 - 8小时吸电子烟的人（62.7%，5分钟内吸的人为36.8%）中使用精灵棒的比例更高（P≤0.044）。大多数吸过电子烟但从未吸过烟的人使用精灵棒（64.3%），尽管其使用率与目前吸烟（45.4%）、曾经吸烟（42.3%）或尝试吸烟（48.7%）的人相比无显著差异（P≥0.060）。选择精灵棒而非其他品牌的常见原因是味道更好/口感更佳（47.5%）、价格更低（28.7%）、更容易获得（26.1%）、吸入更顺畅（24.0%）和知名度高（23.1%）。“更有助于戒烟”（10.1%）是选择精灵棒而非其他品牌最不常提及的原因。
2022年在英格兰吸电子烟的16 - 29岁人群中约有一半使用精灵棒品牌电子烟，选择该品牌而非其他品牌主要是基于主观感受（如味道/口感），而非为了戒烟。
