This study used raw data from the 15th Youth Health Behavior Online Survey(2019) to classify the types of smoking in order to see the factors associated with teenagers' use of electronic cigarettes.
As common results, men were 0.008 times more likely to smoke electronic cigarettes and 0.050 times more likely to use both conventional and electronic cigarettes than women. Also, survey respondents who had no drinking experience in their lifetime were 0.008 times less likely to smoke electronic cigarettes and 0.110 times less likely to use both conventional and electronic types. Respondents who had no sexual experience in their lifetime were 0.020 times less likely to smoke electronic cigarettes and 0.247 times less likely to use conventional and electronic types. For smokers who use both conventional and electronic cigarettes, the results of related factors were more significant.
To improve adolescents' health status, it is imperative that we promote awareness about the seriousness of electronic cigarettes and prevent adolescents from using them. Also, an integrative educational program about health behavior must be developed by cooperating with mental health promotion businesses. As this study is a cross-sectional study that aims to find out the correlation rather than causation, it is limited in terms of analyzing the causes. Therefore, further in-depth studies about adolescent health behaviors are required, and we hope that this study will be used as primary data for preventing adolescent uses of electronic cigarettes.