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AimsWe aimed to assess whether young people who first tried menthol cigarettes were at greater risk of becoming established smokers and dependent on nicotine than young people who started smoking non‐menthol cigarettes.
DesignCohort study using data from the American Legacy Longitudinal Tobacco Use Reduction Study (ALLTURS), a three‐wave longitudinal school‐based survey of middle school and high...
Background and aim
As smoking initiation generally occurs in adolescence, smoking prevention is targeted primarily at young adolescents (aged below 16 years). We hypothesize that, with the adoption of increasingly stronger youth access laws, a shift in the age of smoking initiation may have occurred.
Design
Repeated cross‐sectional survey.
Setting
The Netherlands.
Participants
A total of 13 163...
Aims
To evaluate the catalyst, diversion and common liability hypotheses by examining associations between e‐cigarette use and tobacco cigarette smoking at modal ages 14 and 17 years, controlling for adolescent and infancy risk factors.
Design
Intergenerational, prospective cohort data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). Nationally representative sample of infants born September 2000 to January,...
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