Table 3.
Perceptions of e-cigarette use by sexual orientation among US adults, survey data 2014–2015
| Survey questionnaire item | Overall sample (n) |
Heterosexual weighted % (95%CI) |
Non-heterosexual weighted % (95%CI) |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Do you think people can become addicted to e-cigarettes? | 0.2520 | |||
| No | 418 | 6.20 (5.47, 6.94) | 4.71 (2.54, 6.88) | |
| Yes | 6,722 | 93.80 (93.06, 94.53) | 95.29 (93.12, 97.46) | |
| Do you consider yourself addicted to e-cigarettes? | 0.4032 | |||
| Not at all | 1,165 | 87.23 (84.85,89.69) | 89.55 (84.37,94.72) | |
| Yes, somewhat addicted to | 134 | 10.29 (8.09,12.50) | 7.01 (2.67,11.36) | |
| Yes, very addicted | 34 | 2.44 (1.31,3.57) | 3.44 (0.55,6.33) | |
| Cigarette smokers who also use e-cigarettes while trying to quit smoking cigarettes are | 0.028 | |||
| Less likely to quit smoking cigarettes | 2,590 | 25.18 (24.15, 26.21) | 22.08 (18.08,26.08) | |
| Equally likely to quit smoking cigarettes | 4,875 | 47.81 (46.63, 48.99) | 44.80 (39.76, 49.84) | |
| More likely to quit smoking cigarettes | 2,805 | 27.01 (25.97,28.06) | 33.12 (28.29,37.95) | |
| Is using e-cigarettes … than smoking regular cigarettes? | 0.2113 | |||
| Less harmful | 3,531 | 33.02 (31.92–34.12) | 38.07 (33.28,42.85) | |
| About the same | 3,201 | 31.63 (30.52,32.73) | 29.78 (25.19,34.36) | |
| More harmful | 300 | 3.08 (2.64–3.52) | 3.68 (1.37,5.99) | |
| I don’t know | 3,324 | 32.28 (31.18,33.38) | 28.47 (23.84–33.11) | |
| Do you think that breathing vapor from other people’s e-cigarettes is … | 0.0280 | |||
| Not at all harmful to one’s health | 1,501 | 12.86 (12.09, 13.63) | 16.96 (13.39, 20.52) | |
| Somewhat harmful to one’s health | 2,854 | 28.14 (27.08, 29.21) | 31.27 (26.66, 35.88) | |
| Very harmful to one’s health | 1,841 | 19.22 (18.28, 20.17) | 16.65 (12.68, 20.62) | |
| I don’t know | 4,163 | 39.78 (38.63, 40.93) | 35.12 (30.32, 39.92) | |
| How might using e-cigarettes harm your health? | 0.8371 | |||
| Not at all | 1,240 | 61.65 (58.72, 64.58) | 58.70 (49.81, 67.60) | |
| A little | 553 | 27.58 (24.90, 30.26) | 29.52 (21.65, 37.39) | |
| A lot | 172 | 10.77 (8.78, 12.76) | 11.78 (5.08, 18.47) | |
| When you first used e-cigarettes, how much did you think about how they would harm your future health? | 0.2567 | |||
| Not at all | 1,314 | 68.23 (65.50, 70.96) | 60.90 (52.06, 69.73) | |
| A little | 564 | 24.21 (21.73, 26.69) | 31.19 (22.83, 39.55) | |
| A lot | 13 | 7.56 (5.94, 9.19) | 7.91 (2.56, 13.27) |