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. 2024 Oct 28;21(11):1427. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21111427

Table 2.

E-Cigarette Survey Items: Item Refinement and Selection.

  1. Your classmate has pulled the sleeve of his hoodie over his hand to hide his vape pen and is vaping in class through his sleeve. He looks up at you and says, “Eh, you like try?”

  • 2.

    A big kid follows you and your friend into the bathroom at recess. He corners you and tries to make you buy a vape.

  • 3.

    Your close friend, whom you have known for a long time, keeps asking you over and over if you want to try vaping with him/her.

  • 4.

    Someone tells you that he/she is going to spread a nasty rumor about you unless you try vaping with him/her.

  • 5.

    During a family gathering, your older cousins are going to vape around the side of your uncle’s house. They ask you if you want to join them.

  • 6.

    You go to use the restroom at recess and run into someone who is high from using a marijuana dab pen. (S)he asks you if you want to take a hit.

  • 7.

    Your friend asks you to try vaping because he/she does not want to vape alone.

  • 8.

    Kids are passing around a vape beneath the desks in class. When it gets to you, the student who passes it to you says, “Eh, go smoke ‘um at recess.”

  • 9.

    You run into two friends vaping inside the shopping mall. They ask you if you want to take a hit.

  • 10.

    You are at the gym for PE, and everyone is doing different activities. Your friend asks you if you want to go behind the bleachers to vape.

  • 11.

    Your favorite cousin asks you if you want to try vaping. You are afraid of what (s)he will think of you if you say no.

  • 12.

    You are in the park, and a couple of kids from your school approach you near the bathroom. They ask you if you want to try their vape.

  • 13.

    Your mom or dad offers to buy you a vape.

  • 14.

    You walk into the bathroom at school and smell perfume/cologne. You see two classmates coming out of the bathroom stall, and they ask if you want to try vaping.

  • 15.

    Your brother/sister and their friend are getting high from a marijuana dab pen in your brother/sister’s bedroom. You walk in on them, and they ask you if you want to try it.

  • 16.

    A group of kids ask if you want to try vaping. You are afraid they’ll think you are lame if you say no.

  • 17.

    A group of kids is on Instagram watching someone from their school do tricks with their vape. They ask you if you want to learn how to do them.

  • 18.

    Your older brother/sister leaves his/her vape in their room. They will not notice if you take hits off of it when they are not home.

  • 19.

    You are at a sleepover at a friend’s house, and someone offers you to take a hit off of a marijuana dab pen.

  • 20.

    There are a couple of kids at school who sell vape and have asked you more than once if you’d like to buy one.

  • 21.

    Someone you know at school is using a marijuana dab pen and offers to sell you a hit from it.

  • 22.

    You are sitting at the back of the bus, and the kids across from you are vaping. They look over at you and offer to let you vape with them.

  • 23.

    A classmate is using a mod and blows the smoke into their backpack to hide it. (S)he gives you a look that makes you think they want you to try it.

  • 24.

    You are sitting in a parked car with friends who are vaping, and the vape is passed to you.

  • 25.

    Kids who vape go to a part of the school that is off-limits because they know teachers will not monitor that area. Your friends start walking over there and tell you to come along.

  • 26.

    Your friend tells you that the smoke from vaping is not as harmful if you just puff on it rather than take a big inhale, so you should try it.

  • 27.

    Your friend keeps pestering you to try vaping and tells you that it is good for you

  • 28.

    You are feeling really sad, and your friend says taking a hit from their marijuana dab pen will help you feel better.

  • 29.

    During class, kids take a hit from a vape device and blow the smoke into their shirts. They tell you to take a hit and do the same thing.

  • 30.

    Your boyfriend or girlfriend offers you their vaping device to use.

  • 31.

    Your friend offers you a hit off his/her vape and tells you that you will not get addicted.

  • 32.

    Older family members (parents, aunties, uncles) vape in front of you and leave their vape in places where you could easily take it without them noticing.

  • 33.

    Your friend has the latest vape flavor and offers to let you try it.

  • 34.

    There are places that are dark where vaping devices cannot be seen (e.g., movie theatres). While inside one of these places, your friend asks you to take a hit off of his/her vape.

  • 35.

    You and your friends think the older kids in your school look cool when they vape. Your friend asks you if you want to try it.

  • 36.

    Someone tells you to try out their marijuana dab pen for something stronger than regular vaping.

  • 37.

    Everyone around you is vaping, and you are the only one who is not. Your friend offers you a hit.

  • 38.

    Your older sibling has a marijuana dab pen. It would be easy to steal it from them and use it.

  • 39.

    A bigger kid in your school offers you a vape and says (s)he’ll beat you up if you say no.

  • 40.

    Your friend is going to have a bag search. (S)he asks you to hide their vape device and says you can use it.