Electronic Vapor Product Use and Levels of Physical Activity Among High School Students in Georgia

Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa; Kiran Thapa; Yan Li; Justin B Ingels; Lu Shi; Donglan Zhang; Ye Shen; Kathryn Chiang

doi:10.1177/1179173X221101786

Electronic Vapor Product Use and Levels of Physical Activity Among High School Students in Georgia

Tob Use Insights. 2022 Jul 1:15:1179173X221101786. doi: 10.1177/1179173X221101786. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa¹, Kiran Thapa¹, Yan Li², Justin B Ingels¹, Lu Shi³, Donglan Zhang¹, Ye Shen¹, Kathryn Chiang¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
² Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
³ College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences, Clemson, SC, USA.

Abstract

Introduction: Using a cross-sectional population-based survey, electronic vapor product (EVP) use was evaluated in relation to physical activity levels among high school students in Georgia.

Methods: We used self-reported EVP and cigarette use from the Georgia Student Health Survey 2.0 data from 2018 (N =362 933) and used multi-level multinomial logistic regression models to estimate relative risks of the type of product use relative to no-use by levels of physical activity.

Results: Nearly 7% of the students were EVP-only users. The relative risks of being an EVP-only user were 11% and 23% higher for those who were physically active 2-3 days/week and 4-5 days/week, respectively, compared to those who were physically active <=1 day/week.

Conclusions: Being physically active was positively associated with EVP use among adolescents. Health promotion education and health policies should be developed as a means of reducing EVP use among adolescents.

Keywords: Physically active adolescents; e-cigarette and cigarette use; electronic vapor products.