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Home E-Cigarette Rules & Youth Vaping

Results from a new study support the potential protective effects of implementing a strict home rule for e-cigarette use. 

Research published in the journal Preventive Medicine (2022) involved a secondary analysis of the restricted-use data of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study to examine the longitudinal association between home rules for e-cigarette use and youth's vulnerability including initiation of use and regular use two years later. 

The results show that having a strict home rule for e-cigarette use was associated with youth's heightened level of perceived injunctive norms, higher expectancy of harmfulness and lower odds for regular e-cigarette use. 

The authors concluded that the findings of this study support the potential protective effects of implementing a strict home rule for e-cigarette use. 

Based on this study, interventions like the Parent Vaping Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) Training Program which teaches parents and caregivers to provide youth with brief anti-vaping messages and goal setting to avoid e-cigarette use while increasing healthy behaviors may be a particularly effective strategy for reducing youth e-cigarette use risk factors and consumption. 

Read more of the research article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009174352200384X 

Learn more about Parent PPW Training Programs: https://preventionpluswellness.com/products/parent-prevention-plus-wellness-programs 

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