Declines in Electronic Cigarette Use Among US Youth in the Era of COVID-19—A Critical Opportunity to Stop Youth Vaping in Its Tracks

Andrew C Stokes

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.28221

Abstract

Declines in Electronic Cigarette Use Among US Youth in the Era of COVID-19—A Critical Opportunity to Stop Youth Vaping in Its Tracks

Highlights

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had far-reaching consequences since emerging in the US in February 2020
Declines in Electronic Cigarette Use Among US Youth in the Era of COVID-19 reducing youth vaping. Such efforts may be made especially compelling by communicating potential associations of vaping with incidence and fatality of COVID-19, a link that is supported by emerging literature, such as another 2020 study by Gaiha et al.[5]
Gaiha et al[4] reported that purchasing of e-cigarettes shifted increasingly online. This is consistent with emerging qualitative evidence by Schiff et al[6] that online retailers are frequently accessible to underage youth and that even when age verification is in place, it is often circumvented

Summary

Introduction

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had far-reaching consequences since emerging in the US in February 2020. The findings in the study by Gaiha et al[4] of substantial declines in e-cigarette use associated with COVID-19 is consistent with other emerging evidence.

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