ArticleBMC research notes2025
Beliefs and intention to use e-cigarettes among university students in Dhaka city of Bangladesh: a qualitative exploration.
Article in BMC research notes, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Why Bangladesh Should Maintain the Ban on e-Cigarettes: A Commentary.Health science reports · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveE-cigarette use among Bangladeshi university students is reportedly far higher than national adult prevalence, yet the cognitive and social drivers of this behaviour remain unclear. Guided by the Theory of Planned Behaviour, we explored the beliefs and intentions that shape vaping among students in Dhaka.
resultsBetween January and February 2020 we conducted four sex-stratified focus-group discussions with 32 current vapers (mean age 22 years; 50% male; 50% private-university) drawn purposively from one public and one private university. Most participants were former combustible-cigarette smokers; three quarters had replaced cigarettes with e-cigarettes and half no longer smoked tobacco. Vaping was viewed as less harmful, cheaper, and more socially acceptable than smoking, with judgments shaped by social-media marketing and parental tolerance. Flavoured aerosols, playful brand names, and "cloud tricks" heightened appeal, while easy retail and online access minimised barriers. Peer endorsement was the dominant normative driver; private-university students additionally used premium devices to signal social status. Awareness of potential health risks was limited, and only robust scientific evidence or loss of peer interest were cited as potential deterrents. Targeted education, flavour restrictions, and point-of-sale warnings may curb normalisation of vaping on Bangladeshi campuses.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.