Longitudinal associations between youth tobacco and substance use in waves 1 and 2 of the population assessment of tobacco and health (path) study

Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States (U.S.) (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2014). Despite overall declines in conventional cigarette use in the past several decades, non-cigarette tobacco-product use among U.S. youth has been increasing (Arrazola et al., 2015; Johnston et al., 2017). Wave 1 (2013 –2014) estimates from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study show that, overall, 22% of youths had ever used tobacco (Kasza et al., 2017).

Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - July 25, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Marushka L. Silveira, Kevin P. Conway, Victoria R. Green, Karin A. Kasza, James D. Sargent, Nicolette Borek, Cassandra A. Stanton, Amy Cohn, Nahla Hilmi, K. Michael Cummings, Raymond S. Niaura, Elizabeth Y. Lambert, Mary F. Brunette, Izabella Zandberg, Su Tags: Full length article Source Type: research