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TITLE
Do early experiences with cannabis vary in cigarette smokers?
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION NlmCategory: BACKGROUND
We examine whether regular cigarette smokers were more likely to be exposed to and use cannabis at an earlier age, and further, upon initiation, whether their initial experiences with cannabis varied from those reported by never/non-regular cigarette smokers.
METHOD NlmCategory: METHODS
A sample of 3797 Australian twins and siblings aged 21-46 years was used. Survival analyses examined whether cigarette smokers were at increased likelihood of early opportunity to use cannabis and early onset of cannabis use. Logistic regression examined whether cigarette smokers reported greater enjoyment of their cannabis experience, inhaling on the first try, differing positive and negative initial subjective reactions, smoked cigarettes with cannabis the first time and were more likely to try cannabis again within a week.
RESULTS NlmCategory: RESULTS
Regular cigarette smokers were more likely to report an earlier opportunity to use cannabis and early onset of cannabis use. Regular cigarette smokers were also considerably more likely to have enjoyed their first experience with cannabis and reported higher rates of positive initial reactions. They were more likely to report inhaling on the first try and smoking cigarettes with cannabis. Potentially negative subjective reactions were also elevated in regular cigarette smokers. Importantly, cigarette smokers were at 1.87 increased odds of smoking cannabis within a week of their initial use.
CONCLUSION NlmCategory: CONCLUSIONS
These findings indicate that the well-known overlap in cannabis and cigarette smoking behaviors may evolve as early as opportunity to use and extend through the course of the substance use trajectory.
Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
DATE PUBLISHED
2013 Mar 1
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
received 2012/04/27
revised 2012/08/31
accepted 2012/09/01
aheadofprint 2012/09/23
entrez 2012/09/27 06:00
pubmed 2012/09/27 06:00
medline 2013/08/06 06:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Agrawal A Agrawal Arpana A Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 660 S. Euclid, CB 8134, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA. arpana@wustl.edu
Madden PA Madden Pamela A F PA
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
Lynskey MT Lynskey Michael T MT
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 128
ISSUE: 3
TITLE: Drug and alcohol dependence
ISOABBREVIATION: Drug Alcohol Depend
YEAR: 2013
MONTH: Mar
DAY: 1
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 1879-0046
ISSNTYPE: Electronic
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Drug Alcohol Depend
COUNTRY: Ireland
ISSNLINKING: 0376-8716
NLMUNIQUEID: 7513587
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Comparative Study
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
REFTYPE REFSOURCE REFPMID NOTE
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GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
DA18267 NIDA NIH HHS United States
R01 DA018267 NIDA NIH HHS United States
R01 DA023668 NIDA NIH HHS United States
R01DA23668 NIDA NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adult
Age Factors
Australia
Female
Humans
Male
Marijuana Smoking psychology
Middle Aged psychology
Proportional Hazards Models psychology
Siblings psychology
Smoking psychology
Twins psychology
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's
OTHERID SOURCE
NIHMS411501 NLM
PMC3614406 NLM