Table 3.

Factors associated with curiosity about e-cigarettes, by lifetime combustible tobacco use –NYTS, 2014^a^,^b

	Never Combustible Use		Ever Combustible Use
	Highly Curious OR (95%CI)	Somewhat Curious OR (95%CI)	Highly Curious OR (95%CI)	Somewhat Curious OR (95%CI)
Sex
Female	Referent	Referent	Referent	Referent
Male	0.93 (.77, 1.14)	0.98 (.83, 1.17)	1.03 (.81, 1.32)	1.07 (.75, 1.53)
Race/Ethnicity
NH-White	Referent	Referent	Referent	Referent
NH-Black	1.39 (1.02, 1.88)	0.63 (.47, .86)	0.73 (.50, 1.07)	0.55 (.36, .86)
Hispanic	1.79 (1.48, 2.16)	1.31 (1.09, 1.57)	1.32 (.95, 1.85)	0.78 (.58, 1.06)
Other	1.47 (1.15, 1.89)	1.11 (.85, 1.44)	1.34 (.88, 2.04)	0.91 (.56, 1.49)
School Level
Middle School	Referent	Referent	Referent	Referent
High School	1.10 (.93, 1.29)	1.06 (.88, 1.28)	0.59 (.40, .86)	0.94 (.55, 1.61)
E-Cigarette Ad Exposure: Internet
Not High	Referent	Referent	Referent	Referent
High	1.08 (.74, 1.59)	1.03 (.72, 1.47)	0.63 (.31, 1.26)	1.19 (.62, 2.27)
E-Cigarette Ad Exposure: Newspaper/Magazine
Not High	Referent	Referent	Referent	Referent
High	0.95 (.64, 1.41)	0.90 (.65, 1.24)	1.11 (.68, 1.81)	0.79 (.39, 1.62)
E-Cigarette Ad Exposure: Point-of-Sale
Not High	Referent	Referent	Referent	Referent
High	1.34 (1.09, 1.64)	1.19 (.93, 1.53)	1.37 (.99, 1.90)	0.91 (.63, 1.33)
E-Cigarette Ad Exposure: TV/Movies
Not High	Referent	Referent	Referent	Referent
High	0.70 (.49, 1.00)	0.68 (.49, .95)	1.10 (.67, 1.80)	1.15.70, 1.89)

Never combustible users were defined as students who reported never having used cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, little cigars, hookah/waterpipes, pipe tobacco, and bidis.

Students were grouped into three levels of curiosity based on responses to “Have you ever been curious about using an electronic cigarette or e-cigarette…”: High Curious (Definitely Yes/Probably Yes), Somewhat Curious (Probably No), and Not Curious (Definitely No).

Abbreviations: CI=confidence interval; NH=non-Hispanic