School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Asia Pac J Public Health. 2024 Nov;36(8):664-675. doi: 10.1177/10105395241275226. Epub 2024 Sep 10.
Little is known about vaping and its associated factors among Asian adolescents worldwide. We did a scoping review of the international literature on vaping among Asian adolescents. The prevalence of Asian adolescent vaping varied by the country's e-cigarette policies: the highest prevalence in Indonesia 32.2% (ever vapers) and 11.8% (current vapers) in 2019 and the lowest in Japan with 2.1% to 3.5% (ever vapers) and 0.7% to 1.0% (current vapers) in 2017. In New Zealand, a Western country with strong tobacco control but liberal policies on vaping, the prevalence of ever vaping was 20.4%, regular vaping 4.2%, and weekly vaping 2.8% in 2019. The most common reasons for vaping in both contexts were curiosity and peer influence. The internet as a popular source of information on vaping was identified mostly in Asian studies. In Asian contexts, the most common reasons for more frequent vaping were the desire to quit smoking and the ability to vape indoors, whereas in Western countries, the top three reasons were nicotine concentration, nicotine dependence, and more daily vaping sessions. Regular monitoring and more targeted research to understand adolescents' vaping behaviors will need to be undertaken on this heterogeneous population to inform appropriate policies and regulations.
目前，人们对全球亚洲青少年的蒸气烟使用情况及其相关因素知之甚少。我们对亚洲青少年蒸气烟使用情况的国际文献进行了范围性回顾。亚洲青少年蒸气烟使用情况因各国电子烟政策而异：2019 年，印度尼西亚蒸气烟使用率最高，其中 32.2%（曾经使用者）和 11.8%（现在使用者）使用过蒸气烟；而日本蒸气烟使用率最低，2017 年曾使用者为 2.1%至 3.5%，现在使用者为 0.7%至 1.0%。在新西兰，作为一个具有强大烟草控制措施但蒸气烟政策宽松的西方国家，2019 年曾使用者的蒸气烟使用率为 20.4%，经常使用者为 4.2%，每周使用者为 2.8%。在这两种情况下，蒸气烟使用的最常见原因都是出于好奇和受到同伴影响。互联网作为蒸气烟信息的一个重要来源，主要出现在亚洲研究中。在亚洲背景下，更频繁使用蒸气烟的最常见原因是戒烟的愿望和在室内使用蒸气烟的能力，而在西方国家，排名前三的原因则是尼古丁浓度、尼古丁依赖和每天更多的吸食蒸气烟次数。需要对这一异质人群进行定期监测和更有针对性的研究，以了解青少年的蒸气烟使用行为，从而为制定适当的政策和法规提供信息。
