Faculty Sponsor: Maryam Gooyabadi
Live Poster Session: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/92931684092
Richard Wang
Richard Wang is a sophomore at Wesleyan University majoring in CSS and History. Richard’s academic interests lie in Third World industrialization and the history of China’s modernization. He aims to pursue a career in private international law involving import and export. In his free time, Richard enjoys music and cooking.
Abstract: Although existing research reached consensus that vaping was most prevalent among adolescents and young adults, they had overlooked important age-related differences in nicotine addiction and frequency of e-cigarette use. This study aimed to analyze relationship between age and vape use differ between lifetime experimentation and daily use and the same association after controlling for nicotine dependence syndrome. The dataset used was the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, and the variables used were age group, lifetime e-cigarette use, daily nicotine vaping, and nicotine dependence syndrome. Chi-square analyses showed that vaping experimentation was most common among young adults and low in older adults, while daily vaping among lifetime users remained substantial into adulthood. The result was complicated by the finding that older age was associated with lower odds of daily vaping after controlling for nicotine dependence syndrome. The results showed that age strongly shaped both vaping initiation and addiction, with young adulthood emerging as the highest-risk stage for both experimentation and addiction.
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