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Sex and Polytobacco Use among Spanish and Turkish University Students Font-Mayolas, Sílvia Sullman, Mark J.M. Gras Pérez, María Eugenia Hàbit de fumar Smoking Estudiants universitaris College students Polytobacco use has become increasingly popular among young adults, particularly males, and can be defined as the concurrent use of regular cigarettes and other tobacco products (e.g., e-cigarettes). The present study investigated the use of legal smoking products (cigarettes, waterpipe and electronic cigarettes) among young adults (n = 355) in Spain and Turkey. The survey measured demographics, lifetime and past month tobacco use, waterpipe and e-cigarette use, whether waterpipes and e-cigarettes contained nicotine and reasons for using these substances. The majority of the Turkish (men = 80% and women = 63.9%) and Spanish sample (men = 61.4% and women = 69.3%) were polytobacco users. The most common reason for using e-cigarettes was “to experiment, to see what is like” (Turkish sample: men 66.7% and women 57.1; Spanish sample: men 72.7% and women 93.8%). The most common reason to use regular cigarettes was “to relax and relieve tension” (Turkish sample: men 88.9% and women 77.6%; Spanish sample: men 78.1% and women 76%), while for waterpipe users, the most common reason was “to experiment, to see what it is like” (Turkish sample: men 93.3% and women 80%; Spanish sample: men 78.9% and women 93.8%). The implications for prevention and future research are discussed 2024-06-18T12:31:18Z 2024-06-18T12:31:18Z 2024-06-18T12:31:18Z 2019-12-11 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion peer-reviewed http://hdl.handle.net/10256/17328 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3390/ijerph16245038 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1661-7827 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/eissn/1660-4601 Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, vol. 16, núm. 24, p. 5038 Articles publicats (D-PS)