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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 26.
Published in final edited form as: Addict Behav. 2019 Jan 24;93:93–99. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.01.037

Table 3.

Weighted associations of reasons to use e-cigarette factors and sociodemographic variables by adult e-cigarette user groups in Wave 1 of the PATH Study (2013–2014).

Current experimental EC user
 Former established EC user
 Current established EC user
Alternative to cigarettes
 Larger social environment
 Alternative to cigarettes
 Larger social environment
 Alternative to cigarettes
 Larger social environment
β (SE) p-Value β (SE) p-Value β (SE) p-Value β (SE) p-Value β (SE) p-Value β (SE) p-Value
Past 30 day cigarette use 0.025 (0.022) 0.25 −0.060 (0.024) 0.02 −0.035 (0.032) 0.28 −0.058 (0.043) 0.18 0.004 (0.016) 0.78 0.035 (0.018) 0.06
Female 0.018 (0.013) 0.15 0.024 (0.013) 0.07 0.003 (0.025) 0.89 −0.004 (0.030) 0.89 0.027 (0.012) 0.02 0.013 (0.015) 0.39
Age
 25–34 0.058 (0.015) < 0.001 0.009 (0.016) 0.60 0.028 (0.033) 0.40 −0.090 (0.034) 0.01 0.033 (0.018) 0.07 0.003 (0.019) 0.90
 35–44 0.046 (0.020) 0.02 −0.021 (0.019) 0.27 0.032 (0.039) 0.42 −0.178 (0.041) < 0.001 0.045 (0.019) 0.02 −0.041 (0.025) 0.11
 45–54 0.044 (0.018) 0.02 −0.030 (0.021) 0.16 0.068 (0.052) 0.20 −0.046 (0.051) 0.37 0.044 (0.016) < 0.01 −0.044 (0.023) 0.06
 55–64 0.092 (0.025) < 0.001 0.044 (0.031) 0.17 0.013 (0.053) 0.81 −0.050 (0.048) 0.30 0.010 (0.023) 0.67 −0.063 (0.032) 0.06
 65+ 0.088 (0.028) < 0.01 0.003 (0.038) 0.93 0.079 (0.066) 0.23 −0.054 (0.117) 0.64 0.059 (0.032) 0.07 −0.064 (0.041) 0.12
Race/ethnicity
 Black 0.039 (0.021) 0.07 0.097 (0.025) < 0.001 0.002 (0.049) 0.97 0.110 (0.054) 0.04 0.045 (0.017) < 0.01 0.145 (0.028) < 0.001
 Hispanic −0.013 (0.019) 0.51 0.100 (0.018) < 0.001 −0.025 (0.047) 0.60 0.003 (0.052) 0.95 0.004 (0.016) 0.80 0.085 (0.027) < 0.01
 Other −0.017 (0.023) 0.46 −0.038 (0.027) 0.16 −0.040 (0.045) 0.37 −0.020 (0.045) 0.66 −0.031 (0.025) 0.23 0.080 (0.035) 0.02
Education
 Some college −0.002 (0.013) 0.91 −0.056 (0.014) < 0.001 −0.022 (0.030) 0.46 −0.104 (0.030) 0.001 0.005 (0.013) 0.72 −0.030 (0.016) 0.06
 Bachelor’s or advanced −0.014 (0.020) 0.47 −0.037 (0.025) 0.14 −0.011 (0.034) 0.75 −0.018 (0.044) 0.68 0.008 (0.018) 0.67 −0.033 (0.025) 0.19
Income
 $10,000–24,999 −0.004 (0.017) 0.80 −0.041 (0.018) 0.02 −0.009 (0.039) 0.83 −0.003 (0.044) 0.94 0.021 (0.018) 0.24 −0.038 (0.027) 0.16
 $25,000–49,999 −0.003 (0.019) 0.87 −0.092 (0.022) < 0.001 0.014 (0.041) 0.72 −0.024 (0.051) 0.64 0.007 (0.018) 0.70 −0.081 (0.026) < 0.01
 $50,000–99,999 −0.014 (0.021) 0.52 −0.092 (0.024) < 0.001 0.051 (0.041) 0.22 −0.024 (0.056) 0.67 −0.011 (0.021) 0.62 −0.115 (0.029) < 0.001
 $100,000+ −0.030 (0.028) 0.27 −0.098 (0.027) < 0.001 −0.001 (0.052) 0.99 −0.075 (0.060) 0.21 −0.011 (0.026) 0.68 −0.098 (0.031) < 0.01

Bolded p-values indicate statistical significance at 0.05.