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. 2021 Jan 12;4(1):e2032757. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.32757

Table. Participant Characteristics.

Variable No. (%)a
Female sex 39 (32.8)
Age, mean (SD), y 42.1 (14.4)
Race/ethnicity
White 35 (30.2)
Black 46 (39.7)
Asian 9 (7.8)
Multi-racial 12 (10.3)
Otherb 14 (12.1)
Hispanic 23 (19.8)
Tobacco product use characteristics
Ever combustible cigarette smokingc 105 (88.2)
Current e-cigarette vaping statusd 66 (55.5)
Current other tobacco product usee 27 (25.0)
Biomarkers, mean (SD)
Carbon monoxide, ppm 6.4 (5.9)
Cotinine semiquantitative levelf 4.0 (1.6)
Combustible cigarettes
Age started smoking regularly, mean (SD), yg 18.7 (6.9)
Current cigarettes/d, mean (SD)h 11.0 (6.8)
Cigarettes/d when smoking heaviest, mean (SD)g 17.8 (10.9)
No. of days smoked in past 30 dh 23.4 (10.7)
FTCD, mean (SD)h 4.4 (2.2)
Usually smoke(d) menthol cigarettesg 47 (53.4)
e-Cigarettes
PSECD, mean (SD)i 10.1 (4.9)
Puffs per day, mean (SD)i 85.5 (90.4)
Nicotine concentration typically used, mean (SD), mg/mLi 29.3 (20.6)
Duration of e-cigarette use, mean (SD), moj 21 (16.2)
No. of days vaped in past 30 di 23.4 (8.6)
e-Cigarette device type typically usedj
Cig-a-like 2 (3.3)
Tank/pen 5 (8.2)
Advanced personal vaporizer/mod 11 (18.0)
Pod-based 34 (55.7)
Other 9 (14.8)
Preferred e-cigarette flavorj
Fruit 28 (45.9)
Dessert 7 (11.5)
Mint 6 (9.8)
Menthol 9 (14.8)
Tobacco 9 (14.8)
Other 2 (3.3)

Abbreviations: e-cigarette, electronic cigarette; FTCD, Fagerström Test for Cigarette Dependence; PSECD, Penn State Electronic Cigarette Dependence Index.

a

Overall N = 119. Sample size ranges from 110-119 across variables due to differential patterns of missing data across variables.

b

Includes American Indian or Alaskan Native, Middle Eastern, Pacific Islander (including Hawaii), and other.

c

Smoked ≥100 cigarettes lifetime and in the past 30 days (n = 22 were former smokers who did not smoke at all in past month, n = 83 were current [past-month] smokers).

d

Vaped ≥3 days per week for past ≥2 months.

e

Past 30-day use of “chewing tobacco, snuff or dip,” “dissolvable tobacco product,” “bidis,” “kreteks,” “regular pipe tobacco,” “snus,” “big cigars,” “little cigars or cigarillos,” or “hookah water pipe.”

f

Test strip (range, 1–6; 0 = 0-10, 1 = 10-30, 2 = 30-100, 3 = 100-200, 4 = 200-500, 5 = 500-1000, 6 = >1000 ng/mL).

g

Former or current smokers only (n = 105). Numbers range from 83-105 due to missing data across variables.

h

Current smokers only (n = 83). Numbers range from 80-83 due to missing data across variables.

i

Current users of e-cigarettes only (n = 66). Numbers range from 54-66 due to missing data across variables.

j

Ever users of e-cigarettes only (n = 64). Numbers range from 54-64 due to missing data across variable.