Table 3.
Distribution (%) of various ways to obtain tobacco or vaping products before and after the ban.
| Cigarettes |
Cigars (incl. cigars, little cigars cigarillos) |
E-cigarettes ** |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ways to obtain smoking or vaping products | Before the ban | After the ban | Before the ban | After the ban | Before the ban | After the ban | |
| Over the Internet/through the mail | 3.2 | 6.9 | 7.1 | 11.4 | 15.8 | 26.8 | |
| Friends, family members, or other persons | 23.4 | 19.9 | 25.0 | 22.7 | 18.5 | 15.5 | |
| A smoke shop, tobacco specialty store or tobacco outlet store, etc. | In SF* | 21.8 | 19.9 | 19.6 | 15.9 | 11.6 | 2.4 |
| Out of SF | 10.5 | 13.7 | 7.1 | 6.8 | 4.8 | 8.1 | |
| A supermarket, convenience store, gas station, grocery, drug store, etc. | In SF | 33.1 | 31.3 | 10.7 | 15.9 | 8.9 | 7.3 |
| Out of SF | 8.1 | 7.6 | 3.6 | 2.3 | 3.4 | 5.7 | |
| A cigar bar | In SF | N/A | N/A | 21.4 | 13.6 | N/A | N/A |
| Out of SF | N/A | N/A | 5.4 | 11.4 | N/A | N/A | |
| A vape shop or vapor lounge | In SF | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 27.4 | 19.5 |
| Out of SF | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 8.9 | 13.0 | |
*
Here SF refers to the city of San Francisco.
**
the distribution of ways to obtain e-cigarettes was significantly different before and after the ban, with p < 0.001.