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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 17.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2015 Sep 7;110(12):2015–2024. doi: 10.1111/add.12838

Table 2.

Correlates of craving for combustible cigarettes and e-cigarettes among e-cigarette users and current smokers immediately after advertising exposure.

Craving for combustible cigarettes
(n=565)
Craving for e-cigarettes
(n=482)

Coeff. 95% CI Mean (SD) Coeff. 95% CI Mean (SD)
Experimental condition
Control Ref. 57.65 (13.32) Ref. 61.14 (12.28)
Ingredient −7.12* −13.70, −0.53 51.71 (13.68) −11.98*** −18.75, −5.20 48.67 (13.15)
Industry −4.61 −11.18, 1.96 54.13 (13.60) −9.55** −16.36, −2.74 52.13 (14.27)
E-cigarette use
Never usera Ref. 51.37 (12.16) Ref. 48.53 (11.65)
Past user 1.83 −4.06, 7.71 51.97 (13.12) −0.22 −6.45, 6.01 46.85 (13.49)
Current user 7.14* 1.27, 13.02 58.58 (14.87) 11.05*** 5.01, 17.10 61.52 (12.67)
Smoking status
Non-smokerb Ref. 29.22 (9.56) Ref. 41.17 (13.39)
Non-daily 16.50** 4.48, 28.52 48.52 (11.24) 7.22 −6.50, 20.94 54.15 (13.69)
Daily 30.83*** 18.75, 42.91 60.73 (11.09) 7.53 −6.24, 21.30 51.92 (14.28)
E-cigarette marketing exposure
Low Ref. 40.43 (33.22) Ref. 36.60 (28.30)
Medium 7.52* 0.52, 14.52 49.92 (31.92) 7.83* 0.09, 15.57 47.69 (29.52)
High 17.66 11.06, 24.27 61.51 (27.86) 18.21*** 11.00, 25.43 60.04 (29.99)
Age (years)
18–24 Ref. 50.68 (13.60) Ref. 50.40 (13.10)
≥ 25 1.27 −3.91, 6.46 56.35 (13.32) 2.16 −3.25, 7.57 54.24 (14.76)
Sex
Male Ref. 56.57 (13.13) Ref. 58.39 (12.37)
Female −1.32 −6.29, 3.65 51.14 (13.79) −7.71** −12.91, −2.51 45.90 (13.16)
Race
White Ref. 52.04 (13.39) Ref. 50.02 (13.77)
Non-White 7.26* 1.28, 13.23 60.88 (12.75) 10.80** 4.63, 16.97 61.89 (11.53)
Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic Ref. 52.98 (13.71) Ref. 50.83 (14.18)
Hispanic 6. 93* 0.56, 13.30 57.84 (13.13) 7.52* 0.96, 14.08 60.06 (11.48)
Education
≤ High school Ref. 50.60 (12.17) Ref. 47.52 (12.59)
Some college −0.18 −6.54, 6.19 50.05 (13.50) −0.60 −7.45, 6.26 46.23 (12.63)
≥ 4 years of
college
6.27 −0.19, 12.73 59.10 (13.11) 7.61* 0.76, 14.46 60.12 (12.42)
a

Never user refers to subset of smokers who never tried e-cigarettes.

b

Non-smoker refers to subset of e-cigarette users who were non-smokers.

Cell entries are coefficients from ordinary least squares regressions and means [standard deviation (SD)], adjusted for all other variables in the table.

*

P≤0.05;

**

P≤0.01;

***

P≤0.001.

Value of craving ranges from 0 to 100 for combustible cigarettes and from 1to 100 for e-cigarettes, because that model excludes respondents who reported no craving at all (0). Variance inflation factors did not indicate problems with collinearity when e-cigarette use and smoking status were included in the same model. E-cigarette use was categorized as never user, past user (used but not in the past 30 days), or current user (used at least once in the past 30 days). CI= confidence interval.