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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Tob Control. 2021 May 31;32(1):42–50. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-056479

Table 1.

Participant characteristics and experimental conditions

All
Participants
Experimental group
Control
group
P value for test of group difference
N (%) N (%) N (%)
Age 0.232
 <21 767 (32.6) 374 (31.5) 393 (33.8)
 ≥21 1586 (67.4) 815 (68.5) 771 (66.2)
Gender 0.488
 Female 1351 (57.5) 672 (56.2) 679 (58.5)
 Male 930 (39.5) 479 (56.5) 451 (38.9)
 Other 70 (3.0) 39 (3.3) 31 (2.6)
Sexual orientation 0.573
 Heterosexual 1818 (77.6) 924 (78.1) 894 (77.1)
 Other 524 (22.4) 259 (21.9) 265 (22.9)
Race/ethnicity 0.370
 Non-Hispanic white 360 (15.3) 191 (16.1) 169 (14.6)
 Hispanic white 291 (12.4) 133 (11.7) 152 (13.1)
 Hispanic multiracial 255 (10.9) 133 (11.2) 122 (10.5)
 Hispanic other 754 (32.1) 380 (32.0) 374 (32.2)
 Non-Hispanic Asian 513 (21.8) 268 (22.5) 245 (21.1)
 Non-Hispanic other 176 (7.5) 78 (6.6) 98 (8.5)
Education 0.754
 ≤High school 636 (27.2) 319 (27.0) 317 (27.4)
 Some college 1276 (54.6) 650 (55.0) 626 (54.2)
 ≥Associated degree 427 (18.2) 214 (18.0) 213 (18.4)
Subjective financial situation 0.928
 Living comfortably 1047 (44.8) 526 (44.5) 521 (45.1)
 Other 1291 (55.2) 657 (55.5) 634 (54.9)
Past 30-day e-cigarette use 0.551
 No 1920 (81.6) 965 (81.1) 955 (82.0)
 Yes 434 (18.4) 225 (18.9) 209 (18.0)
Past 30-day cigarette smoking 0.291
 No 2199 (93.4) 1118 (94.0) 1081 (92.9)
 Yes 155 (6.6) 72 (6.0) 83 (7.1)
Past 30-day heated tobacco product use 0.269
 No 2347 (99.7) 1185 (99.6) 1162 (99.8)
 Yes 7 (0.3) 5 (0.4) 2 (0.2)

Other’ category for subjective financial situation includes met needs with a little left, just meet basic expenses and don’t meet basic expenses.

‘Other’ category for sexual orientation includes asexual, bisexual, gay, lesbian, pansexual, queer, questioning or unsure, and other identities.

‘Other’ category for race/ethnicity includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islanders.