Table 5.
Health risk perceptions for tobacco and e-cigarette use, and content of last e-cigarette used, among 13 and 15 year olds in Wales in 2017
| Perceived harms of smoking and vaping | Nicotine content of last e-cigarette used (ever users only) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoking worse (%) | Vaping worse | Equally harmful | Don't know | Nicotine | Flavour / water vapour only | Cannabis or cannabis oil | Something else | Don't know | |
| All | 6,132 (47.8) | 388 (3.0) | 4,529 (35.3) | 1,775 (13.8) | 2,659 (29.9) | 4,681 (52.7) | 247 (2.8) | 80 (0.9) | 1,220 (13.7) |
| Boys | 3,442 (54.8) | 181 (2.9) | 1,831 (29.2) | 825 (13.1) | 1,215 (26.5) | 2,644 (57.7) | 151 (3.3) | 50 (1.1) | 521 (11.4) |
| Girls | 2,579 (41.0) | 192 (3.1) | 2,627 (41.8) | 891 (14.2) | 1,371 (33.5) | 1,949 (47.7) | 70 (1.7) | 26 (0.6) | 672 (16.4) |
| Year 9 | 3,376 (45.0) | 213 (2.8) | 2,783 (37.1) | 1,123 (15.0) | 937 (25.5) | 2,057 (56.0) | 86 (2.3) | 37 (1.0) | 555 (15.1) |
| Year 11 | 2,756 (51.7) | 175 (3.3) | 1,746 (32.8) | 652 (12.2) | 1,722 (33.0) | 2,624 (50.3) | 161 (3.1) | 43 (0.8) | 665 (12.8) |
| Never-smoker | 4,800 (46.4) | 216 (2.1) | 3,902 (36.7) | 1,429 (13.8) | 772 (17.0) | 2,959 (65.2) | 50 (1.1) | 34 (0.8) | 725 (16.0) |
| Ever- smoker | 1,204 (54.8) | 150 (6.8) | 565 (25.7) | 277 (12.6) | 1,769 (44.4) | 1,548 (38.9) | 183 (4.6) | 43 (1.1) | 442 (11.1) |
Note: Sample sizes differ for perceived harm (n=12,824) and content of last e-cigarette (n=8,887). Perceived harm was asked of a random subsample of pupils, whereas content of last e-cigarette was asked of a sample of ever users only. Both samples include gender non-response (n=256, 2.0%; n=218, 2.5%)