E-Cigarette A New Tobacco Product for Schoolchildren in Paris.docVIP

Open Journal of Respiratory Diseases, 2013, 3, 21-24 /10.4236/ojrd.2013.31004 Published Online February 2013 (/journal/ojrd) E-Cigarette: A New Tobacco Product for Schoolchildren in Paris Bertrand Dautzenberg , Pierre Birkui , Maryvonne No?l , 1,2,3,4 1 5 1,2 Johanna Dorsett , Monique Osman , Marie-Dominique Dautzenberg 2 2,6,7 1 Paris Sans Tabac (PST), Paris, France Office Fran?ais de Prévention du Tabagisme (OFT), Paris, France Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière (APHP), Paris, France Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France Rectorat de l’Académie de Paris, Paris, France H?pital Necker Enfants-Malades, Paris, France 2 3 4 5 6 7 Université René Descartes, Paris, France Email: bdautz@gmail.fr Received January 13, 2013; revised February 3, 2013; accepted February 10, 2013 ABSTRACT Objectives: To explore if the dramatic decrease in price of e-cigarette has transformed this new product into a product used for tobacco initiation among a teenage population. Methods: The authors added a question in 2012 on e-cigarette in the yearly survey on tobacco consumption in Paris schoolchildren. The study is conducted on a randomly selected sample from 2% of classes since 1991. Results: 277 (8.1%) of the 3409 schoolchildren studied (including 575 non re- sponders to this question) reported having had an experience with e-cigarette. Experimentation rate is 6.4% among the 12 - 14-year-old, 11.8% among the 15 - 16-year-old and 9% among the 17-year-old schoolchildren. Among the 12 - 14- 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,