TY - JOUR T1 - Have e-cigarettes renormalised or displaced youth smoking? Results of a segmented regression analysis of repeated cross sectional survey data in England, Scotland and Wales JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 207 LP - 216 DO - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054584 VL - 29 IS - 2 AU - Britt Hallingberg AU - Olivia M Maynard AU - Linda Bauld AU - Rachel Brown AU - Linsay Gray AU - Emily Lowthian AU - Anne-Marie MacKintosh AU - Laurence Moore AU - Marcus R Munafo AU - Graham Moore Y1 - 2020/03/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/29/2/207.abstract N2 - Objectives To examine whether during a period of limited e-cigarette regulation and rapid growth in their use, smoking began to become renormalised among young people.Design Interrupted time-series analysis of repeated cross-sectional time-series data.Setting Great BritainParticipants 248 324 young people aged approximately 13 and 15 years, from three national surveys during the years 1998–2015.Intervention Unregulated growth of e-cigarette use (following the year 2010, until 2015).Outcome measures Primary outcomes were prevalence of self-reported ever smoking and regular smoking. Secondary outcomes were attitudes towards smoking. Tertiary outcomes were ever use of cannabis and alcohol.Results In final models, no significant change was detected in the pre-existing trend for ever smoking (OR 1.01, CI 0.99 to 1.03). There was a marginally significant slowing in the rate of decline for regular smoking (OR 1.04, CI 1.00 to 1.08), accompanied by a larger slowing in the rate of decline of cannabis use (OR 1.21, CI 1.18 to 1.25) and alcohol use (OR 1.17, CI 1.14 to 1.19). In all models and subgroup analyses for smoking attitudes, an increased rate of decline was observed after 2010 (OR 0.88, CI 0.86 to 0.90). Models were robust to sensitivity analyses.Conclusions There was a marginal slowing in the decline in regular smoking during the period following 2010, when e-cigarettes were emerging but relatively unregulated. However, these patterns were not unique to tobacco use and the decline in the acceptability of smoking behaviour among youth accelerated during this time. These analyses provide little evidence that renormalisation of youth smoking was occurring during a period of rapid growth and limited regulation of e-cigarettes from 2011 to 2015.Trial registration number Research registry number: researchregistry4336 ER -