TABLE 2. Usual source* of obtaining electronic vapor products among current electronic vapor product users,† by age — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019.
Usual source | Age group§ |
|
---|---|---|
≥18 yrs |
≤17 yrs |
|
% (95% CI) | % (95% CI) | |
Bought them in a store (e.g., a convenience store, supermarket, discount store, gas station, or vape store) |
56.4 (51.0–1.6) |
8.1 (6.8–9.6) |
Got them on the Internet |
1.8 (0.9–3.4) |
3.6 (2.8–4.6) |
Gave someone else money to buy them for me |
3.1 (1.5–6.1) |
21.3 (19.5–23.2) |
Borrowed them from someone else |
27.5 (23.4–32.0) |
42.8 (40.2–45.4) |
A person who can legally buy these products gave them to me |
3.9 (2.4–6.3) |
11.1 (9.9–12.3) |
Took them from a store or another person |
2.0 (0.8–5.0) |
1.6 (1.1–2.4) |
Got them some other way | 5.4 (3.3–8.8) | 11.6 (10.1–13.4) |
Abbreviation: CI = confidence interval.
* Students were limited to selecting only one response.
† Including e-cigarettes, e-cigars, e-pipes, vape pipes, vaping pens, e-hookahs, or hookah pens (e.g., blu, NJOY, Vuse, MarkTen, Logic, Vapin Plus, eGo, and Halo) among students who used electronic vapor products during the 30 days before the survey.
§ Comparisons between age groups were assessed by t-test (p<0.05). All comparisons were statistically different with the exception of “took them from a store or another person.”