%0 Journal Article
%T E-Cigarette: A New Tobacco Product for Schoolchildren in Paris
%A Bertrand Dautzenberg
%A Pierre Birkui
%A Maryvonne NoŁżl
%A Johanna Dorsett
%A Monique Osman
%A Marie-Dominique Dautzenberg
%J Open Journal of Respiratory Diseases
%P 21-24
%@ 2163-9418
%D 2013
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojrd.2013.31004
%X <p class=\"MsoNormal\">
	<b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Objectives: </span></b><span lang=\"EN-US\">To explore if the dramatic
decrease in price of e</span><span lang=\"EN-US\">-</span><span lang=\"EN-US\">cigarette has transformed this new product into a product used for
tobacco initiation among a teenage population. <b>Methods:</b> The authors added a question in 2012
on e-cigarette in the yearly survey on tobacco consumption in <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:city w:st=\"on\">Paris</st1:city></st1:place> schoolchildren. The study is conducted
on a randomly selected sample from 2% of classes since 1991. <b>Results: </b>277
(8.1%) of the 3409 schoolchildren studied (including 575 non re</span><span lang=\"EN-US\">sponders
to this question) reported having had an experience with e-cigarette.
Experimentation rate is 6.4% among the 12</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> </span><span lang=\"EN-US\">-</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> </span><span lang=\"EN-US\">14-year-old,
11.8% among the 15</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> </span><span lang=\"EN-US\">-</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> </span><span lang=\"EN-US\">16-year-old and 9% among the 17-year-old schoolchildren. Among the
12</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> </span><span lang=\"EN-US\">-</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> </span><span lang=\"EN-US\">14-</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> </span><span lang=\"EN-US\">year-old schoolchildren, 64.4% of e-cigarette experimentation was by
non-smokers. Of the 17-year-old teenagers who had used e-cigarettes, 12.4% were
non-smokers. For the whole population, 33.2% of those having tried e-cigarette
are non-smoker, 22.7% occasional smoker, 3.6% ex-smoker and 40.4% daily smoker.
Those who experiment cannabis, shi</span><span lang=\"EN-US\">sha or binge-drinking are more frequently
users of e-cigarette. </span><span lang=\"EN-US\">I</span><span lang=\"EN-US\">n the smoker group, there is an inverse trend of rela</span><span lang=\"EN-US\">- </span><span lang=\"EN-US\">tionship
between the readiness to quit tobacco and the rate of use of e-cigarette. <b>Conclusion: </b>For teenagerĄŻs, e-cigare</span><span lang=\"EN-US\">- </span><span lang=\"EN-US\">ttes have become not a product to aid quit
tobacco but a product for experimentation and initiation of cigarette use.
Regulation is urgently needed to control the emergent use of this new tobacco
product by children.</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><o:p></o:p></span> 
</p>
%K E-Cigarettes
%K Teenagers
%K Tobacco Initiation
%K Epidemiologic Study
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=28003