Comprehensive review of the national surveys that assess E-cigarette use domains among youth and adults in the United States

Ellen Boakye; John Erhabor; Olufunmilayo Obisesan; Erfan Tasdighi; Mohammadhassan Mirbolouk; Ngozi Osuji; Albert D Osei; Jieun Lee; Andrew P DeFilippis; Andrew C Stokes; Glenn A Hirsch; Emelia J Benjamin; Rose Marie Robertson; Aruni Bhatnagar; Omar El Shahawy; Michael J Blaha

doi:10.1016/j.lana.2023.100528

Comprehensive review of the national surveys that assess E-cigarette use domains among youth and adults in the United States

Lancet Reg Health Am. 2023 Jun 7:23:100528. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2023.100528. eCollection 2023 Jul.

Authors

Ellen Boakye^{1

2}, John Erhabor^{1

2}, Olufunmilayo Obisesan³, Erfan Tasdighi¹, Mohammadhassan Mirbolouk¹, Ngozi Osuji⁴, Albert D Osei³, Jieun Lee⁵, Andrew P DeFilippis^{2

6}, Andrew C Stokes^{2

7}, Glenn A Hirsch^{2

8}, Emelia J Benjamin^{2

9

10}, Rose Marie Robertson^{2

6}, Aruni Bhatnagar^{2

11}, Omar El Shahawy^{2

12}, Michael J Blaha^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² The American Heart Association Tobacco Regulation and Addiction Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburg Medical Center, Pittsburg, PA, USA.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁶ Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁷ Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁸ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA.
⁹ Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
¹¹ University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA.
¹² Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.

Abstract

Surveillance of e-cigarette use among different population groups is important for the timely implementation and evaluation of tobacco regulatory policies. In this review, we identified 13 nationally representative, repeatedly conducted epidemiologic surveys that assess e-cigarette use among U.S. youth and/or adults and have been instrumental in e-cigarette surveillance. These surveys included National Youth Tobacco Survey, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, Monitoring the Future Survey, International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC) Youth Tobacco and Vaping Survey, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, National Health Interview Survey, Tobacco Use Supplement of the Current Population Survey, Health Information National Trends Survey, Tobacco Products and Risk Perception Surveys, ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, and Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health. These surveys vary in scope and detail, with their unique strengths and the regulatory questions that can be answered using each survey data. We also highlighted the gaps in these surveys and made recommendations for improvement.

Keywords: Adults; E-cigarette; Surveillance; Surveys; United States; Youth.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

T32 HL007227/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States