Table 3.
PATH Study Wave 4 Youth Current Non-tobacco Users’ Perceived Nicotine Harm Predicting Wave 4.5 Current Product Use (Current Nonuser = 0, Current User = 1), Odds Ratios and 95% Confidence Intervals
| Wave 4 predictor | Wave 4.5 current product use status1 OR (95% CI) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any tobacco use4 (unweighted n = 10 388) |
E-cigarette5 current use (unweighted n = 10 854) |
Any cigar6 current use (unweighted n = 11 100) |
Cigarette current use (unweighted n = 10 988) |
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| Unadj. | Adjusted | Unadj. | Adjusted | Unadj. | Adjusted | Unadj. | Adjusted | |
| Harm of nicotine in cigarettes1,2 |
0.70
(0.63,0.78) |
0.72
(0.64,0.80) |
0.70
(0.62,0.78) |
0.71
(0.63,0.80) |
0.67
(0.56,0.81) |
0.72
(0.59,0.86) |
0.76
(0.64,0.89) |
0.81
(0.68,0.96) |
| Harm of nicotine in e-cigarettes3 |
0.67
(0.60,0.76) |
0.66
(0.58,0.75) |
0.68
(0.60,0.78) |
0.68
(0.59,0.78) |
0.70
(0.56,0.87) |
0.73
(0.57,0.93) |
0.63
(0.54,0.74) |
0.64
(0.54,0.77) |
| Harm of nicotine in NRT |
0.78
(0.72,0.84) |
0.79
(0.73,0.85) |
0.74
(0.68,0.81) |
0.75
(.68,0.82) |
0.79
(0.67,0.93) |
0.83
(.70,0.98) |
0.76
(0.69,0.83) |
0.79
(0.72,0.80) |
Bolded numbers were statistically significant at p < .05. Both adjusted and unadjusted analyses exclude w4 participants aged 17 as these participants are moved to the adult data set at age 18. Adjusted analyses controlled for age sex, and ethnicity. Analyses exclude participants who selected the “don’t know” response option for each nicotine belief and perception item (shown in Table 1). Wave 4 was collected from December 2016 to January 2018; wave 4.5 was collected from December 2017 to December 2018.
1 Current use is defined as any use in the past 30 days.
2 Analyses control for absolute harm perceptions of cigarettes.
3 Analyses control for absolute harm perceptions of e-cigarettes.
4 PATH defines use of any tobacco product as use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes or other electronic nicotine products, cigars, pipe, hookah, snus, or other types of smokeless tobacco (such as dip, spit, or chew), and dissolvable tobacco. This is a derived variable.
5E-cigarettes in PATH are described with the following preamble: “The next questions are about electronic nicotine products, such as e-cigarettes, vape pens, personal vaporizers and mods, e-cigars, e-pipes, e-hookahs, and hookah pens. These products are battery-powered and produce vapor or aerosol instead of smoke. They contain nicotine liquid, sometimes called “e-liquid” or “e-juice,” although the amount of nicotine can vary and some may not contain any nicotine at all. Some can be bought as one-time, disposable products, while others can be bought as reusable kits that are rechargeable. Some common brands include Vuse, Blu, Logic, MarkTen, NJOY, eGo, and iTaste. such as e-cigarettes, vape pens, personal vaporizers and mods, e-cigars, e-pipes, e-hookahs, and hookah pens.
6Any cigar use includes traditional cigars, cigarillos, or little filtered cigars. Cigars in PATH are described with the following preamble: The next questions are about traditional cigars, cigarillos, and filtered cigars. These products go by lots of different names, so please use these descriptions and photos to understand what they are. Traditional cigars contain tightly rolled tobacco that is wrapped in a tobacco leaf. Some common brands of cigars include Macanudo, Romeo y Julieta, Arturo Fuente, and Cohiba, but there are many others… Cigarillos and filtered cigars are smaller than traditional cigars. They are usually brown. Some are the same size as cigarettes, and some come with filters or with plastic or wooden tips. Some common brands are black & Mild, Swisher Sweets, Dutch Masters, Phillies Blunts, Zig Zag, and Cheyenne.
PATH = Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study.