Harm perceptions across vaping product features: An on‐line cross‐sectional survey of adults who smoke and/or vape in the United Kingdom.
Background and aims: Vaping products are diverse with a wide variety of features, and popular products change rapidly. This study examined the features and types of vaping products that people who smoke and/or vape perceive contribute to the health harms of vaping. Design, setting and participants:...
| Publicado en: | Addiction Vol. 120; no. 3; pp. 524 - 539 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=183756611&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 183756611 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 09652140 AIO jtl: Addiction issn: 09652140 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Mar2025 vid: 120 iid: 3 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 183756611 177646513 183756611 183756611 10.1111/add.16572 183756611 ppf: 524 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Harm perceptions across vaping product features: An on‐line cross‐sectional survey of adults who smoke and/or vape in the United Kingdom. aug: au: East, Katherine Vu, Giang Sun, Tianze D'Mello, Kimberly Perman‐Howe, Parvati Rose Taylor, Eve Nottage, Matilda Brose, Leonie Sarah Robson, Deborah McNeill, Ann affil: National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK sug: subj: Vaping In Adulthood Smoking In Adulthood Tobacco Products Health Knowledge Evaluation Attitude to Health Attitude to Risk Human United Kingdom Funding Source Male Female Adolescence Adult Middle Age Aged Cross Sectional Studies Questionnaires Convenience Sample Descriptive Statistics Logistic Regression Nicotine Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Male Female ab: Background and aims: Vaping products are diverse with a wide variety of features, and popular products change rapidly. This study examined the features and types of vaping products that people who smoke and/or vape perceive contribute to the health harms of vaping. Design, setting and participants: This was a cross‐sectional survey co‐designed with adults who smoked/vaped and pre‐registered. An on‐line survey (November 2022) was used of a convenience sample of adults in the United Kingdom who smoked and/or vaped (n = 494). Measurements: As primary outcomes, respondents were asked to select any of 15 vaping product features they perceived might have any effect on the health harms of vaping (for each: selected, not selected). Independent variables were smoking/vaping status (smoke and vape; vape, formerly smoked; vape, never regularly smoked; smoke, do not currently vape); relative vaping harm perceptions [less harmful than smoking (accurate), equally/more harmful than smoking or do not know/refused (other)]. Binary logistic regressions were used to compare outcomes by current vaping/smoking status and relative harm perceptions, adjusting for age and sex. Findings Most people (54.7%) selected between one and three features. The most frequently selected were nicotine concentration (62.2%) and amount of e‐liquid consumed (59.1%), followed by nicotine type (e.g. salt or freebase; 33.0%), source/purchase location (25.3%), flavours (24.7%), temperature to heat e‐liquid (21.1%), heat produced by device (20.9%), e‐liquid brand (20.9%), amount of emissions (18.6%), device type (e.g. disposable, pod, tank; 17.2%), material of tank (17.0%), power/wattage (13.0%), device brand (8.1%), device size (4.1%) and device weight (2.4%). Higher nicotine concentrations, more e‐liquid and salt (versus freebase) nicotine were perceived to confer greater harms. Disposables were perceived as slightly more harmful than reusable devices. There were few differences by current vaping/smoking status and between those with accurate (versus other) harm perceptions of vaping relative to smoking (P > 0.05 for most contrasts, adjusting for age and sex). Conclusions: Certain features and types of vaping products [higher nicotine concentrations, more e‐liquid consumed and salt (versus freebase) nicotine] were perceived to confer greater health harms among a sample of UK adults who smoked and/or vaped. Findings are consistent with pervasive misperceptions that nicotine is a major cause of harm, although e‐liquid volume is likely to contribute to harms. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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