Initiation of vaporizing cannabis: Individual and social network predictors in a longitudinal study of young adults

The proliferation of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has introduced a generation of young people to a new method of ingesting nicotine that does not require combustion. These devices, which heat a liquid that typically contains nicotine and flavorings to an inhalable aerosol, have become popular among young people (Johnston et al., 2017). As of 2015, ENDS (also called e-cigarettes or “vapes”) were the most commonly used tobacco product by youth (Singh et al., 2016). The long-term health effects of these products are currently unknown, and more disturbingly, there is evidence that use of these products by never-smoking adolescents increases the risk of initiating traditional cigarette smoking in adolescents and young adults (Leventhal et al., 2015; Loukas et al., 2018; Soneji et al., 2017; Spindle et al., 2017).
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