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Use of electronic cigarettes among young Swiss men
  1. Nedialka Douptcheva1,
  2. Gerhard Gmel2,
  3. Joseph Studer2,
  4. Stéphane Deline2,
  5. Jean-François Etter1
  1. 1 Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
  2. 2 Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
  1. Correspondence to Nedialka Douptcheva, Institut de médecine sociale et préventive, Université de Genève, CMU, 1 rue Michel-Servet, Genève 4 CH-1211, Switzerland; Nedialka.Douptcheva{at}unige.ch

https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2013-203152

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    Electronic cigarettes have been recently gaining popularity, but there is little information on the public health implications of vaping or on the profile of vapers. The status of e-cigarettes in Switzerland was established in 20091 and the sales of e-cigarettes containing nicotine have been prohibited. However, the import of limited quantities of nicotine containing e-cigarettes and refill liquids for personal use is allowed. In this study, we describe the prevalence of e-cigarette use among young Swiss men and examine the associations between e-cigarette use and some characteristics of this population.

    The analysis is part of the Cohort Study on Substance Use Risk Factors (C-SURF), a longitudinal study …

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    • Contributors The listed authors have been credited with authorship based on the provided authorship criteria as follows: ND: conception, design, analysis and interpretation of the data, drafting of manuscript, final approval; GG: critical revision of manuscript, final approval; JS: acquisition of data, interpretation of data, final approval; SD: critical revision of manuscript, final approval; J-FE: Conception, design, interpretation of the data, critical revision of manuscript, final approval.

    • Funding This work was supported by Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 33CSC0-122679).

    • Competing interests Dr. Etter reports that he was reimbursed (plane + hotel) by a manufacturer of refill liquids for e-cigarettes, for traveling to London and to China, to visit e-cigarette factories. He was not paid for these meetings.

    • Ethics approval Ethics Committee for Clinical the Research of Lausanne University Medical School.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.