Experience and Current Use of Heated Tobacco Products in Korean Military Personnel

Eunjoo Kwon; Eun-Hee Nah; Seon Cho; Jieun Chu; Suyoung Kim

doi:10.15384/kjhp.2019.19.4.221

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Kwon, Nah, Cho, Chu, and Kim: Experience and Current Use of Heated Tobacco Products in Korean Military Personnel

Original Article

Korean Journal of Health Promotion 2019;19(4):221-228.

Published online: December 31, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15384/kjhp.2019.19.4.221

Experience and Current Use of Heated Tobacco Products in Korean Military Personnel

Health Promotion Research Institute, Korea Association of Health Promotion, Seoul, Korea.

Corresponding author: Eun-Hee Nah, MD, PhD. Health Promotion Research Institute, Korea Association of Health Promotion, 96 Gonghang-daero, Gangseo-gu, Seoul 07649, Korea.
Tel: +82-2-2600-0107, Fax: +82-2-2690-4915, cellonah@hanmail.net

Received November 11, 2019 Revised December 24, 2019 Accepted December 27, 2019

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

ABSTRACT

Background

Heat tobacco products (HTPs) are emerging in Korea. There are few studies that investigated the rates of HTPs use among military personnel in Korea. This study was performed to identify the prevalence of HTPs experience and use. Also this study aimed to evaluate the related factors of HTPs experience and use among military personnel in Korea.

Methods

The study subjects were 3,878 military personnel participated health survey for Korean soldiers from November to December in 2018. Binominal logistic regression analysis was performed to confirm the related factors of HTPs experience and use among military personnel in Korea.

Results

The HTPs experience and current use rates of study subjects were 17.4% and 8.7%, respectively. And the HTPs experience and current use among military personnel was associated with college/university degree (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 1.441, 1.377), lance-corporal (aOR 2.049, 5.636), superiors' smoking in military camp (aOR 1.516, 1.567), interest in health (aOR 1.637, 1.571), ever used smoking (aOR 2.817, 3.575), and ever used electronic cigarette (E-cigarette) (aOR 3.129, 1.587).

Conclusions

The HTPs experience and current use among military personnel are closely related to educational level, military level, smoking status of the superiors, interests in health, conventional cigarette smoking, and E-cigarette use.

Keywords: Heated tobacco products, Electronic nicotine delivery systems, Smoking, Military personnel

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Table 1

Experience and use of HTPs among military personnel

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation or number (%).

Abbreviations: FTND, Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence; HTPs, heated tobacco products.

^aEver used HTPs was compared with never used HTPs by chi-square test or t-test.

^bCurrentely use HTPs was compared with non-currently use HTPs by chi-square test or t-test.

Table 2

Adjusted ORs of experience and use of HTPs among military personnel

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; FTND, Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence; HTPs, heated tobacco products; OR, odds ratio.

^aAdjusted for age, type of military force.