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. 2020 Aug 21;69(1):56–63. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.su6901a7

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.”