Abstract

Objectives

We aimed to document the social factors encouraging and discouraging e-cigarette use amongst Latino college students.

Participants

Participants were second-generation Latino male college students.

Methods

We interviewed 20 second-generation Latino male college students, 10 regular smokers and 10 infrequent smokers, at the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, Riverside.

Results

Regular and infrequent smokers present similar motivations that either encourage or discourage e-cigarette use. Repeated peer-exposure, skepticism of the harmfulness of recreational use, and disagreement with familial views of substance use encourage e-cigarette use. High costs, weak nicotine euphoria, and evidence of health risks discourage e-cigarette use.

Conclusions

Our results suggest that motivations for e-cigarette use in Latino college students are similar to those of young, non-Latinos and that regular and infrequent users may be determined by temporal circumstances and opportunity as opposed to unique social factors. Further research is warranted to comprehensively investigate this phenomenon.

中文翻译：

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青年、家庭和社会：调查拉丁裔大学生电子烟使用动态

摘要

目标

我们的目的是记录鼓励和阻止拉丁裔大学生使用电子烟的社会因素。

参加者

参与者是第二代拉丁裔男大学生。

方法

我们采访了加州大学欧文分校和加州大学河滨分校的 20 名第二代拉丁裔男大学生，其中 10 名经常吸烟者和 10 名不经常吸烟者。

结果

经常吸烟者和不经常吸烟者表现出类似的动机，鼓励或阻止电子烟的使用。同伴的反复接触、对娱乐性使用危害性的怀疑以及对药物使用的家庭观点的分歧鼓励了电子烟的使用。高成本、微弱的尼古丁欣快感以及健康风险的证据阻碍了电子烟的使用。

结论

我们的研究结果表明，拉丁裔大学生使用电子烟的动机与年轻的非拉丁裔学生相似，经常和不频繁使用电子烟可能是由时间环境和机会决定的，而不是独特的社会因素。需要进一步的研究来全面调查这一现象。