Nicotine-naïve adolescents who live with tobacco products users, 2018 Florida Youth Tobacco Survey

Abstract

Objective

We assessed the prevalence and factors associated with living with tobacco/nicotine product users among nicotine-naïve adolescents.

Methods

Data were from the 2018 Florida Youth Tobacco Survey that included 34,183 adolescents who were never-tobacco product users and provided information about living with tobacco/nicotine users.

Results

More than a quarter of adolescents lived with a tobacco/nicotine user. Girls were more likely than boys and middle-schoolers were more likely than high-schoolers to live with someone who uses cigarettes, cigars, and poly-tobacco. Compared to non-Hispanic Whites, Hispanics were less likely to live with someone who uses cigarettes, electronic nicotine delivery systems, cigars, and poly-tobacco. Adolescents who reported currently having asthma were more likely to report living with someone who smokes cigarettes, hookah, and poly tobacco.

Conclusions

To reduce and ideally eliminate exposure to smoke/aerosol emitted from tobacco products in nicotine-naïve adolescents, individual and family-centered interventions, coupled with state-wide tobacco prevention strategies are warranted.

Keywords:

• adolescents
• secondhand smoke
• secondhand aerosol
• Florida

Disclosure statement

No conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Acknowledgments

The Florida Youth Survey data used in this report were collected by the Florida Department of Health (DOH). The views expressed herein are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida DOH.