Table. Participant Characteristics.
Variable | No. (%)a |
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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.
Overall N = 119. Sample size ranges from 110-119 across variables due to differential patterns of missing data across variables.
Includes American Indian or Alaskan Native, Middle Eastern, Pacific Islander (including Hawaii), and other.
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).
Vaped ≥3 days per week for past ≥2 months.
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.”
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).
Former or current smokers only (n = 105). Numbers range from 83-105 due to missing data across variables.
Current smokers only (n = 83). Numbers range from 80-83 due to missing data across variables.
Current users of e-cigarettes only (n = 66). Numbers range from 54-66 due to missing data across variables.
Ever users of e-cigarettes only (n = 64). Numbers range from 54-64 due to missing data across variable.