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. 2022 Apr 3;24(9):1386–1395. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntac088

Table 3.

Contrasts Between Survey Waves (2017–2020) Within Each Country for Exposure to Mostly Negative News Stories and Perceptions of Vaping Harms, Adjusting for Demographic Covariates.

Full sample (n = 63 380) Past 30-day vapers (n = 9 442)
Exposure to mostly negative news stories about vaping Accurate perception that vaping is less harmful than smoking Perception that vaping takes less than a year to harm users’ health Worry that vaping will damage your health in the future
AOR (95% CI) p AOR (95% CI) p AOR (95% CI) p AOR (95% CI) P
England
 2017 (Jul–Aug) REF REF REF REF
 2018 (Aug–Sep) 1.09 (1.07–1.11) <.001 1.00 (0.98–1.02) .929 1.04 (1.02–1.06) <.001 1.08 (1.01–1.15) .032
 2019 (Aug–Sep) 1.21 (1.19–1.24) <.001 0.93 (0.91–0.96) <.001 1.08 (1.06–1.10) <.001 1.09 (1.02–1.15) .007
 2020 (Feb–Mar) 1.24 (1.22–1.26) <.001 0.86 (0.84–0.88) <.001 1.12 (1.10–1.14) <.001 1.12 (1.05–1.18) <.001
 2020 (Aug) 1.12 (1.10–1.14) <.001 0.87 (0.85–0.89) <.001 1.11 (1.08–1.13) <.001 1.11 (1.05–1.18) .001
Canada
 2017 (Jul–Aug) REF REF REF REF
 2018 (Aug–Sep) 1.07 (1.05–1.09) <.001 0.99 (0.97–1.02) .593 1.04 (1.02–1.07) <.001 1.02 (0.96–1.08) .575
 2019 (Aug–Sep) 1.33 (1.30–1.36) <.001 0.87 (0.85–0.89) <.001 1.10 (1.08–1.13) <.001 1.14 (1.07–1.21) <.001
 2020 (Feb–Mar) 1.50 (1.47–1.53) <.001 0.80 (0.78–0.82) <.001 1.20 (1.18–1.23) <.001 1.22 (1.15–1.30) <.001
 2020 (Aug) 1.23 (1.21–1.26) <.001 0.81 (0.79–0.83) <.001 1.20 (1.17–1.23) <.001 1.15 (1.08–1.23) <.001
United States
 2017 (Jul–Aug) REF REF REF REF
 2018 (Aug–Sep) 1.11 (1.09–1.13) <.001 0.93 (0.91–0.95) <.001 1.06 (1.04–1.09) <.001 1.06 (1.00–1.12) .043
 2019 (Aug–Sep) 1.39 (1.36–1.42) <.001 0.82 (0.80–0.84) <.001 1.15 (1.12–1.18) <.001 1.11 (1.05–1.18) <.001
 2020 (Feb–Mar) 1.59 (1.56–1.63) <.001 0.76 (0.74–0.78) <.001 1.22 (1.19–1.25) <.001 1.13 (1.07–1.20) <.001
 2020 (Aug) 1.34 (1.31–1.37) <.001 0.79 (0.77–0.81) <.001 1.20 (1.18–1.23) <.001 1.09 (1.03–1.16) .003

Estimates were obtained using Stata’s margins command following a survey wave*country interaction term added to the adjusted logistic regression models shown in Tables 1 and 2.