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Electronic Cigarette Use Among Adolescents In The European Area

Table 1:

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)
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