Country |
Year of study |
Sample size |
Age (years) |
Main findings concerning prevalence (% of use) |
Reference |
Ever |
Past 30-days |
Weekly |
Finland |
2013 |
3 535 |
12-18 |
17.4E-liquids with nicotine were used most often (65.7%) |
n.a. |
n.a. |
(Kinnunen et al., 2015) |
France |
2013 |
3151 |
12-19 |
17.9 |
5.6 |
n.a. |
(Dautzenberg et al., 2015) |
Germany |
2010 |
2 693 |
12-13 |
4.7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
(Hanewinkel & Isensee, 2015) |
|
2015-2016 |
4 163 |
10th grade students (mean 15.5) |
14.3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
(Morgenstern et al., 2018) |
Greece |
2014 |
1 320 |
15 |
16.6 |
n.a. |
0.5 |
(Fotiou et al., 2015) |
Hungary |
2012 |
2 325 |
13-15 |
n.a. |
13 |
n.a. |
(Demjén, Tomka, Böti, & Koncz, 2013) |
Ireland |
2014 |
821 |
16-17 |
24 |
3.2 |
n.a. |
(Babineau et al., 2015) |
Netherlands |
2016-2017 |
6 819 |
11-17 |
13.7 (with nicotine)29.4 (without nicotine) |
6.7 (with nicotine)13.2 (without nicotine) |
n.a. |
(Treur et al., 2018) |
Poland |
2010-2011 |
11 893 |
15-19 |
23.5 |
8.2 |
n.a. |
(Goniewicz & Zielinska-Danch, 2012) |
2013-2014 |
1 785 |
16-18 |
60.7 |
29.6 |
n.a. |
(Goniewicz et al., 2016) |
2014-2015 |
3 552 |
13-19 |
49.1 |
27.4 |
n.a. |
(Kaleta, Wojtysiak, & Polańska, 2016) |
Romania |
2013 |
342 |
16-18 |
28.9 |
3 |
n.a. |
(Lotrean et al., 2016) |
2014 |
1 835 |
5-10th grade students (mean 14.9) |
38.5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
(Nădăşan, Pénzes, & Urbán, 2017) |
Scotland |
2013 |
33 685 |
13-15 |
11.6 |
1.1 |
n.a. |
(Kaufmann & Currie, 2017) |
Switzerland |
2012 |
3 067 |
8th grade students (mean 14.2) |
43 |
24 |
n.a |
(Surís et al., 2015) |
The United Kingdom |
2013 |
2 062 |
11-18 |
4.6 |
0.9 |
n.a. |
(Eastwood et al., 2015) |
2014 |
1 952 |
11-18 |
8.2 |
1.7 |
n.a. |
(Eastwood et al., 2015) |
2015 |
1 943 |
11-18 |
13.5 |
3.3 |
n.a. |
(Eastwood et al., 2017) |
2016 |
2 019 |
11-18 |
11.9 |
2.6 |
n.a. |
(Eastwood et al., 2017) |
2016 |
1 152 |
11-18 |
11.5 |
2.1 |
n.a. |
(East et al., 2018) |
Wales |
2013-2014 |
9 055 |
11-16 |
12.3 |
1.5 |
n.a. |
(Moore et al., 2015) |
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria |
2017 |
21 196 |
15-17 |
32.7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
(Kristjansson et al., 2017) |