Table 1.
Characteristics of young adults (N = 247) who lived or worked in the city of San Francisco and used tobacco or vaping products between December 2018 and November 2019.
| Use of flavored tobacco products before the ban % |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All (N = 247) % |
Menthol cigarettes (N = 81) | Flavored e-cigarettes (N = 139) | Flavored cigars (N = 42) | ||
| Gender | Female | 38.1 | 44.4 | 36.7 | 28.6 * |
| Male | 60.7 | 56.8 | 61.9 | 71.4 * | |
| Else | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 0 * | |
| Age | 18–24 | 25.1 | 11.1 ** | 25.2 | 28.6 |
| 25–34 | 74.9 | 88.9 ** | 74.8 | 71.4 | |
| Race /ethnicity | White | 60.7 | 55.9 | 69.8 | 62.2 |
| Black | 9.7 | 18.9 | 5.7 | 16.2 | |
| Asian | 12.6 | 17.6 | 11.5 | 21.6 | |
| Hispanic | 13.4 | 14.8 | 8.6 | 11.9 | |
| Others and mixed | 3.6 | 1.4 | 4.3 | 0 | |
| Education | Below bachelor | 47.8 | 45.6 | 50.4 | 40.5 |
| Bachelor and above | 52.2 | 54.4 | 49.6 | 59.5 | |
| Parental education | Below bachelor | 49.4 | 51.8 | 50.3 | 54.7 |
| Bachelor and above | 50.6 | 48.2 | 49.7 | 45.3 | |
| Employment status | Full-time work | 75.7 | 77.8 | 77.0 | 85.7 |
| Part-time work | 15.4 | 14.8 | 15.1 | 9.5 | |
| Not employed | 8.9 | 7.4 | 7.9 | 4.8 | |
| Student status | Full-time student | 21.1 | 16.0 | 17.3 | 9.5 |
| Part-time student | 14.2 | 9.8 | 14.4 | 19.1 | |
| Not a student | 64.8 | 74.1 | 68.3 | 71.4 | |
Note: boldface indicates statistical significance, with * for P < 0.05, and ** for P < 0.01.